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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Over the next three days, you have control of the

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Speaker 2: billboards of Melbourne. We have one hundred and thirty six

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Speaker 2: billboards to give to you today, tomorrow and Sunday as well.

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Speaker 3: Christian, what about today? Good luck?

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Speaker 2: Far Jack Jenkins in UFC two eighty four in Perth

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Ten years to get is making is his

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Speaker 2: debut in the US. Very very exciting. Good or to

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Speaker 2: Volkanovski as well. I spoke to far Jack's mum yesterday.

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Speaker 2: There's one hundred and sixty of them flying over to

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Speaker 2: Perth friends, and yeah, that is amazing.

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Speaker 4: I would have cost in a million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, imagine that. Yeah, so yeah, really really good

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Speaker 2: luck and I hope your boy does well as well.

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Speaker 3: Joe. All right, so what do you want on the billboards? Marina?

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Speaker 3: Good morning?

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Speaker 5: Good morning, Christians.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Marina. What would you love to say up there?

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Speaker 5: Well, look, I've got a say guilt of shine, we'kally

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Speaker 5: well for me, So I would like.

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Speaker 6: A billboard that shouted to my son Harry reply to

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Speaker 6: your mother's text.

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Speaker 3: I love this.

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Speaker 2: It makes me want to just check my phone that

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Speaker 2: I replied to my mom does everyone else getting that?

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Speaker 3: Mama aks, So you don't upset Mum.

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Speaker 4: You could go into anybody's part and go to the

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Speaker 4: last visage to their mom, and there'll be a question

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Speaker 4: waiting to be answered.

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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 5: I think he would reply to an uber rating quickly.

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Speaker 3: Heart break into how old is Harry twenty three? Twenty three?

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Speaker 3: He is? An answer is.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes going on sixteen? I think the twenty three?

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, hear all right, Marina, it might be you.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to die here, Good morning, die.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Happy Friday.

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Speaker 2: Happy Friday. What would you love on the billboards?

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Speaker 6: I would love to put on the billboard Reading Cinemas,

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Speaker 6: please hire my son? Thanks broke Mama.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so you said in your boy out to work?

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Speaker 4: How old is he?

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Speaker 6: He's seventeen. He needs to get his first job. And

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Speaker 6: I know he'd really love to work at the cinemas

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Speaker 6: because he loves movies and he has applied there before

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Speaker 6: but just hasn't heard anything back from them.

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Speaker 3: So you want to use this to try and nudge

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Speaker 3: Reading Cinemas to give him a job.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's not what you know too, you know.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to localize it?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 4: Which wedding cinemas you are, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Turnside Park, that's our close. I'd say he's applied previously.

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Speaker 2: Shout out Churnside Park high and what's your lad's name?

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Speaker 6: His name's Dominic. He isn't bought some kids, and he

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Speaker 6: would love it there. He would work very hard, he

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Speaker 6: could pay board.

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Speaker 3: Spoken like a true motherly always say that about that

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Speaker 3: kid in a way.

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Speaker 4: We're riding his resume up the billboard. What like, what

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Speaker 4: else should we put on? There were previous experience hobbies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hobbies and interests, qualification certificates.

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Speaker 6: Watching movies, movies those he say.

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Speaker 4: When you're a kid and you're writing your first resume,

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Speaker 4: you've got no prevy experience, so you have to fill.

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Speaker 2: It up with you always make out like you do

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Speaker 2: so much for the community.

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Speaker 3: As well as lawn. I put that on there once.

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Speaker 6: I haven't had enough time getting to my my lord

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Speaker 6: all right, he wants to be a filmmaker, so it

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Speaker 6: would be a perfect job for you.

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Speaker 3: This is so great to hear about. Do you know what?

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Speaker 2: So often when you go to simmers, they're just teenagers

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Speaker 2: who are boared working there.

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Speaker 4: I mean you used to work seventeen years old. I

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Speaker 4: worked at Hoyts Cinema.

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Speaker 2: So if you've got someone who's genuinely interesting, surely they're

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Speaker 2: going to be a bit more of a good energy

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Speaker 2: to be around.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's let's put up an advert for your son.

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Speaker 3: Then let's do this. Does he know we're doing this?

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Speaker 6: By the way, I did mention to it earlier, so

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Speaker 6: I just thought I won't make false promises. See what happens.

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Speaker 6: But yes, he would be absolutely delighted.

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Speaker 3: All right, helped him.

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Speaker 6: Get a job.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's do it, reading Cinema Churnside Park.

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Speaker 6: Please hire my son.

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Speaker 3: Please I make it personal.

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Speaker 2: Please hire my son. Do you mind if I just

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Speaker 2: call him Dom for the sake of wording on the poster.

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Speaker 6: Yep, that's fine. That's what he calls himself as well.

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Speaker 4: And then he loves movies.

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Speaker 6: He loves movies.

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Speaker 3: What about this guy loves movies? Like get Dom. I'm

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Speaker 3: with Dom. Start that hashtag this guy loves movies. Yes,

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Speaker 3: all right, read it back, Jackie boy.

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Speaker 4: Reading Cinema's Churnside Park. Please hire my son Dom.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, no, it's how you work in a call center.

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Speaker 3: I get these people from.

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Speaker 4: Please hire my son Dom. This guy loves me.

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Speaker 2: This guy loves movies, and then we'll put our phone number.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, we'll get that up there a SAP.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. The Christian O'Connell show podcast tay here.

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Speaker 2: We've asked you what would you like to sound a

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Speaker 2: billboard and then we put it up live during the

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Speaker 2: show to over one hundred billboards. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: I've been so emails, so many emails, so we haven't

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Speaker 2: been able to apply to Thank you very much. Some

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Speaker 2: of you shared some really intimate stuff about what you'd

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Speaker 2: love up there and why. I'm sorry that we couldn't

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Speaker 2: get to all of them, but hopefully enjoyed listening to

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Speaker 2: the ones.

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Speaker 3: We did get to.

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Speaker 2: So over the next three days, lots of people are

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Speaker 2: going to be seeing these amazing messages. So let's talk

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Speaker 2: about first of all, then let's talk about tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: All day Saturday, Mitch's billboard will be live. Dear chefs

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Speaker 4: of Melbourne, no chips under our parmers.

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Speaker 3: I like this.

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Speaker 2: It's a powerful begging a plea, isn't it, to the

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Speaker 2: chefs of something that we can all get behind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no more soggy chips please.

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Speaker 4: Then to Sunday.

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Speaker 2: This is like your old lost connections. Was the thing

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Speaker 2: you used to call it in the.

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Speaker 4: Melbourne misconnections or the one in MX was he's looking

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Speaker 4: at you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So the man in the high viz at several polling

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Speaker 4: booth last election we shared a moment, call me Julie,

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Speaker 4: and then I actually put at the bottom called Christian brackets.

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Speaker 4: He'll call Julie nine four one four three.

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Speaker 2: Now did any of us know about this? I knew

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Speaker 2: you were going quiet over there. He also went, we

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Speaker 2: haven't got room on there. But he also had glasses

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Speaker 2: that he got out at some moment when they're having

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Speaker 2: a little bit of chit.

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Speaker 4: Chat starting to write a story.

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Speaker 3: It's huge, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Can we spread it out over a couple of billboards,

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Speaker 2: all one hundred and thirty six in installments, and then

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Speaker 2: the current billboard today came from a lovely woman we

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Speaker 2: spoke to earlier.

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Speaker 3: Die.

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Speaker 2: It was a message for her employee. Well, she wants

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Speaker 2: to find her seventeen year old son Dom a job.

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Speaker 2: Movie man wants to make movies, needs to get his

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Speaker 2: first job.

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Speaker 3: So the billboard said.

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Speaker 4: Reading Cinema Churnside Park, please hire my son Dom. This

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Speaker 4: guy loves movies.

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Speaker 2: It's very direct play love this this is wrong. Hey

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Speaker 2: die hey, Now, we only spoke to you about an

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Speaker 2: hour and a half ago. Hopefully, hopefully it's worked. We

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Speaker 2: have someone on the line now who needs to speak

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark, Good morning, Christian.

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Speaker 5: How are you today?

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Speaker 3: I'm good Mark and Mark. What do you do for

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Speaker 3: a living? What do you do, sir?

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Speaker 1: I'm director of cinema operations for Reading Cinemas.

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Speaker 3: Get in and he's gone to the main man dying.

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Speaker 5: Hi, hi, die, hi you, I'm good, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: You're going to hire my kid?

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Speaker 5: Know what? Look, I tell you what looking from CBC,

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Speaker 5: who are great friends of Reading Cinemas. He got ahold

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Speaker 5: of us this morning because he saw one of the billboards.

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Speaker 5: He gave me a call and said to me, you've

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Speaker 5: got to hire this guy.

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Speaker 3: So story, you've got to put this kid in the picture.

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Speaker 5: A great to come. I mean, we've got a man

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Speaker 5: opening next week and incre three, so.

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Speaker 3: Always great. So you're going to take him on.

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Speaker 1: We're going to give him a trial, Christian.

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Speaker 5: If you can roll, if he can roll the chop

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Speaker 5: pop and pop some popcorn, he's got a job.

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Speaker 2: That's it great, awesome, that's really kind of you. Mark,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome and I will be in touch all right.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: I love Yeah. He means you've got to work there

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Speaker 3: too next weekend, guys, Get ready for that. Man die.

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Speaker 3: This is great news. Well done forgive us a call.

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Speaker 6: I'm repped.

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Speaker 5: I can't wait to tell my son. He will be

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Speaker 5: absolutely thrill awesome.

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Speaker 3: I have a lovely weekend. Thanks you calling you.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 3: I've just realized that's the only one that's gone well,

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Speaker 3: no one's ever said thank you. Yeah, that's kind of

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Speaker 3: all right doing that. We finally did it, guys.

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