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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now is the owner

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Speaker 1: of the Smith Street Supermarket, Jeff McGill. Get a Jeff,

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Speaker 1: okatie here young, not bad Jeff.

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Speaker 2: What's happened on the weekend?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yesterday afternoon that quarter past two? Two indigenous guys

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Speaker 3: decided to come into the shop the toll that we

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Speaker 3: don't sell alcohol, we never have on a Sunday anyway,

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Speaker 3: and they proceeded to go and grab a bottle of

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Speaker 3: sauce and just smash the window and steal to six

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Speaker 3: packs albar. Funny enough, if there's anything funny about it.

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Speaker 3: The two six packs were zero great Northern no alcohol, mate.

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Speaker 2: That is actually funny. That is a good job.

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Speaker 3: That's the only funny thing about it.

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Speaker 2: It is the only funny thing about it.

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Speaker 1: Because you and I have spoken on a lot of

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Speaker 1: occasions off air about the measure that you guys have

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Speaker 1: had to take to ensure that you know, firstly that

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Speaker 1: you're not getting broken into. But it sounds to me

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Speaker 1: like this has actually happened in broad daylight, while you

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Speaker 1: guys are there, while the poor staff were there. Is it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? The fellow who was on was fairly shaken. I

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Speaker 3: normally work somedays myself. But I had it off because

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Speaker 3: we're our family Christmas party and got the phone call,

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Speaker 3: came over and you could see is visually shaken, you know,

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Speaker 3: like obviously you just let them walk out, and that've

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Speaker 3: been told to do.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just so annoying, you know, sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: the governments sort of carrying on about, you know, knocking

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Speaker 3: two hours off here. And I'm not sure if they

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Speaker 3: actually realize or smart enough, or they're that stupid they

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Speaker 3: don't realize if they want to get to alcohol, they're

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Speaker 3: going to get it. Any restrictions they put in is

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Speaker 3: just it's a waste of time and inconvenience, you know,

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Speaker 3: the average show blow and no result result.

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Speaker 2: Look, you know I've been in there before.

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Speaker 1: I came in to buy a secret Sander present for

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Speaker 1: you know, for one of my workmates. And you guys

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Speaker 1: like you've literally you've already got to have everything you

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Speaker 1: know behind behind closed doors. You've got your heaviest spirits

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Speaker 1: all behind like security screen. There are some really serious

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Speaker 1: measures that are in place for our supermarkets. Not to

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Speaker 1: mention the fact that you can only have a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of sales per month or per quarter that you're

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Speaker 1: able to actually have going towards people purchasing alcohol.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh well, that's another story. The twenty five percent.

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Speaker 3: I cocked the fine because I was point seven percent over,

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Speaker 3: absolutely no leniency and I had to fight at an

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Speaker 3: endcat to get the fine dropped down to something sort

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Speaker 3: of reasonable, which obviously wasn't reasonable. But that's another story.

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Speaker 3: But it's just this think. You know, like everything they're doing,

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Speaker 3: and I'm not the only one who says, you know,

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Speaker 3: everyone feels the same and what they're doing, you know,

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Speaker 3: staff aren't feeling safe anymore, the measures they're putting in place.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't work in Allie Springs, it doesn't work in

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Speaker 3: Catherine Tannet Craig. You know what they're going to do here,

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Speaker 3: and I bet I'll guarantee you I heard you having

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Speaker 3: a ten dollar bet before ten dollars. When the twenty

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Speaker 3: fifth of January comes around, it'll become permanent. Yeah, game,

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Speaker 3: they played.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, I reckon, I'm going to end up with

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Speaker 1: no money if I keep if I keep agreeing to these.

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Speaker 2: Bets, be exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, I'm really sorry that that happened to you

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Speaker 1: guys on the weekend did I really feel for the

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Speaker 1: you know, the bloke that you have working, because it

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Speaker 1: would be incredibly frightening. And you know, history in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory over the last year has taught us that

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Speaker 1: it can become an incredibly dangerous situation. You know. The

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Speaker 1: measures that you guys have got to have in place

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Speaker 1: are extreme to put it mildly, and then to have

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Speaker 1: people still coming in on a Sunday when you're not

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Speaker 1: even allowed to sell alcohol and coming in and causing damage.

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Speaker 1: How much damage did they cause?

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Speaker 3: Oh well, they smashed a double glazed or on the fridge,

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Speaker 3: so I would imagine that'll be you know, three maybe

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Speaker 3: four thousand dollars to pix.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And I'm obviously still waiting for the police to turn up.

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Speaker 3: I understand they're very busy, but at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, you know, half the time we don't ring.

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Speaker 3: It's just you know, they're too busy. Yeah, but now

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Speaker 3: the next thing I've got to do. I've decided that,

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Speaker 3: which doesn't help my regular customers there. But it's just

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Speaker 3: two Sundays, you know, Like it's all right during the

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Speaker 3: week we have a few stars, but Sunday there's one

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Speaker 3: person and I believe that from what I've heard over

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Speaker 3: the last couple of days, the bottle shops have been

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Speaker 3: targeted on the weekend because there's hardly any stuff so crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so our regulars, you know, I'm going to I'm going

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Speaker 3: to have to shut unfortunately, are you serious on.

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Speaker 1: What a that's really that's a huge decision for you

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Speaker 1: guys to have to make. So you're not going to

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Speaker 1: open on Sundays now because of the danger.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. And as I said before, Natasha fALS

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Speaker 3: is getting away. She is trying to get the supermarkets

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Speaker 3: out of the game, and the way she's going she's

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Speaker 3: going to achieve that they'll be another feather in a

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Speaker 3: cap before she has to get out.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, that is just.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of the right words that aren't swearing

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Speaker 1: for the fact that you guys have to actually do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no swearing, Yeah you really. My blood's boiling. I

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Speaker 3: just I normally I don't get involved anything, you know,

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Speaker 3: I try and stay under the radar. Yeah, this is

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Speaker 3: finally got on top of me, you know, like it's

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Speaker 3: just mine.

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Speaker 1: Jeff rightly, So you know, like how long have you

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Speaker 1: and your family lived here? You've got your you've got

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Speaker 1: your grandkids being raised in the Northern Territory. Like it's

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Speaker 1: it's rightly so that you're pissed off and you've had enough.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've we've been here basically all our life. My

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Speaker 3: mum was born here, you know, we've been around for

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Speaker 3: a while. Without telling how old I am and bloody

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Speaker 3: feeling it's it's to the stage where we will be

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Speaker 3: like everyone else. We'll we'll be we get the opportunity,

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Speaker 3: we'll be out of here, We'll move on.

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Speaker 2: Mate. I'm really sorry to hear that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you and I have a chat occasionally,

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Speaker 1: all fair, and you are some one who doesn't like

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Speaker 1: to put yourself out there. You're you know, you're not

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Speaker 1: going on.

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, I'm really glad that you have this morning.

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Speaker 1: And I've just gotten a message from Samara, Lavity Declan's mum.

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Speaker 1: She's text us to say that she's absolutely disgusted. She

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Speaker 1: feels sick about the nineteen year old that's been put

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Speaker 1: on bail and the opening bottle shops two hours later.

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Speaker 1: She feels like it's a knee jerk reaction in an

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Speaker 1: attempt for the Northern Territory government to show that they're listening.

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Speaker 2: You know, people are really upset.

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Speaker 3: No, oh, absolutely, And if they're going to do this

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Speaker 3: taking two hours off, wouldn't you think it'd be more

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Speaker 3: beneficial to do it at the back end of the

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Speaker 3: day when they you know, they can't keep getting alcohol

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Speaker 3: when they're already gone there, because it's not going to

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Speaker 3: stop them getting alcohol, nobstely not. Yeah, just inconvenience people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, I really appreciate you talking to me this morning.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I know that it's not somebody who

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Speaker 1: and do you know, quite frankly, I think that we

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Speaker 1: all need to do a bit more of it because

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Speaker 1: what's happening is not good enough and there's so many

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Speaker 1: bloody great people in the Northern Territory and the last

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Speaker 1: thing we want is to lose those wonderful territorians to

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Speaker 1: another state.

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Speaker 3: Well, she's doing the right thing to do that. And

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Speaker 3: when I'm not the only one who thinks that, and

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Speaker 3: then there's obviously a hell of a lot of people

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Speaker 3: have already packed up their bongos and moved.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff, thank you for talking with me this morning.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And I hope that your that your

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Speaker 1: worker is okay as well from yesterday's incident.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we're talking with him and everything like that,

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Speaker 3: so yeah, you should good. Hopefully that's side of things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and mate, you did.

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Speaker 1: You did make me laugh by the fact that they

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Speaker 1: they accidentally still be it that's got no alcohol in it.

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Speaker 3: Under a tree, drinking it and thinking Jesus, is ain't

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Speaker 3: any good?

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Speaker 2: This is not good. Jeff, thank you. I appreciate your

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Speaker 2: calling and having a chat with me today. Talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Soon, Okay. Thanks.

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Speaker 2: See