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Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio right now is the

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Speaker 1: community in Corporate Relations manager for Food Bank, Paul White.

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Speaker 1: Good morning too, here are you going? Yeah? Really good.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in this studio and I always

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Speaker 1: love finding out exactly what food Bank's up to. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big supporter of food Bank and the amazing work

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Speaker 1: that you guys do. And well, right at the moment,

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Speaker 1: you're actually in need of some assistance to continue to

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Speaker 1: supply breakfast for free at some of our local schools.

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Speaker 2: That's right. We have initiated a trial for school breakfast

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Speaker 2: program in the Northern Termtory or food banks around Australia

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Speaker 2: actually have a school breakfast program. We've got a mixture

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Speaker 2: of sponsorship between Impex and the A to Milk company.

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Speaker 2: Let's supply labor which is half a job a week,

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Speaker 2: and also the transportation which where Peter and I are

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Speaker 2: going tomorrow, Peter, henry yourself out to deliver and food.

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Speaker 2: We're asking for support from the Downsouth food manufacturing companies

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Speaker 2: which all in all they're very happy to help us.

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Speaker 2: But now with the supply chain issues that are going on,

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Speaker 2: it's really getting hard and the food just hasn't appeared

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Speaker 2: so we thought while we are waiting, what better to

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Speaker 2: do is ask our community who always supports us for help.

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Speaker 2: They really big at Christmas time and we don't need

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Speaker 2: a lot, We need a bit of a push. So

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Speaker 2: we'll be out in shopping centers over the next two

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Speaker 2: weeks asking the community to donate breakfast specific food for

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Speaker 2: our school breakfast program.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to exactly what kind of foods you're

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Speaker 1: asking people to donate, how many schools does Food Bank

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Speaker 1: support here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Well, at the moment, we have our schools program which

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Speaker 2: caters for about forty schools itself. They can come in

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Speaker 2: and purchase food from us like all our other charities.

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Speaker 2: But our trial for the school Breakfast program for the

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Speaker 2: last term and this term is twenty six specific schools

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Speaker 2: across the top end and that's right out to Jabaru

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Speaker 2: Regional Schools, Pine Creek, Adelaide River, Bachelor and also down

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Speaker 2: to Catherine and also remote schools out to juk Mingen

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Speaker 2: and Baranga Rankor where we're going tomorrow to deliver food

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Speaker 2: and also Null and Boy's wonderful. That represents twenty six schools.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, and do we know how many kids. That's milk.

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Speaker 2: One thousand vulnerable children. Now they're deemed vulnerable the fact

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Speaker 2: that they may not be able to get breakfast in

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Speaker 2: the morning, and we know which are without breakfast. There

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Speaker 2: are other impacts from that as well. So the idea

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Speaker 2: is that food Bank supplies the breakfast food, which is

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Speaker 2: standard foods such as whipis and uhta milk, some powdered

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Speaker 2: milk some communities like powder bok over uht also baked beans, spaghetti,

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Speaker 2: just the general stand stuff. We'll be posting on the

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Speaker 2: socials this week. People can have a look and we'll

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Speaker 2: have shopping this at the nominated shopping centers Friday, starting

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Speaker 2: Friday at the Mitchell Center.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Now, Paul, I just want to ask you, because

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Speaker 1: I know you said around a thousand kids, and we

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Speaker 1: know that you know that what you might consider kids

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Speaker 1: that are vulnerable or that need that food. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine it's probably grown as well in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years based on not only COVID, but cost of

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Speaker 1: living is on the rise, and you know, every parent

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Speaker 1: wants to make sure that they're in a situation where

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Speaker 1: they are able to ensure that their children's bellies are

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Speaker 1: full when they go to school, but for some people

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Speaker 1: it's bloody hard.

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Speaker 2: Right now, the need is just grown dramatically and unfortunately

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Speaker 2: our funding model, and I don't mean just the government,

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Speaker 2: I mean the support base we get from even food

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Speaker 2: manufacturing companies, from donations, so fundraising put it all together,

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Speaker 2: and the JARA is still empty. It's like the tab

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Speaker 2: is running faster, but yet we can't fill it up

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Speaker 2: quick enough. Now we've got some proposals that we're looking

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Speaker 2: at to work further afield with other organizations have shown

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Speaker 2: interest to support us. But it's not just about getting

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Speaker 2: the money. It's about having logistical capacity to be able

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Speaker 2: to deliver to the schools. So to deliver the schools

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Speaker 2: we're doing at the moment, we are flat already. We

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Speaker 2: can only take our truck away on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

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Speaker 2: we're going to need a new truck. So it's not

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Speaker 2: just a about one thing. It's the impact. And as

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Speaker 2: you're right, the need is growing dramatically and we're obligated

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Speaker 2: to respond to that need in times of trouble, we

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Speaker 2: ask the community to help and they always do.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the community always wants to help, particularly with a

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Speaker 1: great organization like food bank. Mate tell us exactly what

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Speaker 1: we can donate and where we can donate us.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, the main thing we need to be

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Speaker 2: mindful of that we need dried and ten goods. So

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Speaker 2: it's got a longer shelf life. Enables us to collect it,

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Speaker 2: to store it, to sort it and then get it

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Speaker 2: out to community. So Whippis, especially the one point twenty

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Speaker 2: five that's a box of Whipicks cost five dollars in

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Speaker 2: the shop. Now we've estimated that twenty four of those

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Speaker 2: packets will feed one school out and remote community for

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Speaker 2: a term. Right, so five bucks of twenty is it's

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Speaker 2: one hundred bucks, so maybe one hundred and thirty one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty dollars that gives one school that Whippis

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Speaker 2: flown titan. So we're going to be at Coal's as

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Speaker 2: I said, Cole's Wallas and I g A over the

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Speaker 2: next two weeks. We'll advertise where we're going to be

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Speaker 2: and we'll also have gift vouchers available through Coals so

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Speaker 2: people if they don't have time to go and get

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Speaker 2: the whippicks. They can actually give us a voucher, pay

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Speaker 2: for a voucher and we'll go and buy the whippicks

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Speaker 2: for them.

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Speaker 1: And so this is kicking off. So when do we

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Speaker 1: need to donate.

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Speaker 2: If we can from now, you can neither. You can

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Speaker 2: bring food into food Bank yourself. You can do a

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Speaker 2: workplace food drive and collect this to just contact food Bank.

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Speaker 2: We can send you out some digital assets that you

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Speaker 2: can do sharing of bring it in and then call

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Speaker 2: us and we can come and collect. Or We'll be

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Speaker 2: at Cole's Mitchell Center this Friday, Then on Saturday we're

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Speaker 2: out to call a Linger Central, and on Sunday we'll

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Speaker 2: be at Coal's North Lakes and then the following weeks

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Speaker 2: Gateway Palms and Walworst. On the Friday, Saturday out at

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Speaker 2: Karama Shopping Center and Sunday at Nightclift Shopping Center. And

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Speaker 2: on Thursday, the finale will be at zook Holi Plaza.

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Speaker 1: Oh wonderful.

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Speaker 2: So if you can't get to those centers, we just

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Speaker 2: don't have the capacity to do all the centers. It's unfortunate.

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Speaker 2: Peter myself will be working on the weekends to do

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Speaker 2: that with our volunteers, but we need a staff member there.

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Speaker 2: But give us a call. We're easy to find. And

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Speaker 2: if you've got something a bit different you want to do,

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Speaker 2: give us a donation or a corporate business might want

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Speaker 2: a sponsor and entire school so for the term. So

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Speaker 2: we can work out how much that would be.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like it would be a huge amount

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Speaker 1: based on the cost of those wheatbeaks and some of

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Speaker 1: the other stuff. It doesn't sound like it'd be a

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Speaker 1: massive amount. If you are a business, it's maybe, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe you are going through a good, fruitful time right

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Speaker 1: now and you've got the capacity to donate and to

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Speaker 1: do a little bit more than what you have previously.

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Speaker 1: I'll certainly give you guys a call it food bank.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, we can also offer a DGR which is

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Speaker 2: a deductible gift receipt for businesses that wish to donate

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Speaker 2: food or or donate money. So yeah, if everyone helps

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Speaker 2: us and Chips in Coals are doing it, Will Works

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Speaker 2: are doing it, Ida is doing it, the government's doing it.

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Speaker 2: Everyone working together, we can get us across the line

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Speaker 2: and have food ready for the kids for this coming down.

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Speaker 1: Such an important thing to do. The other thing that

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Speaker 1: I reckon is, you know, is a good way of

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Speaker 1: doing it. If you are somebody that's going out and

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Speaker 1: doing your shopping on the weekend at any of those

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Speaker 1: locations that Paul's just mentioned, obviously buying your own food,

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Speaker 1: why not get a few extra things that you're then

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Speaker 1: able to donate as part of you know, you're not

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Speaker 1: even having to go out of your way.

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Speaker 2: We look for the purple binness in those centers. The

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Speaker 2: purple bins have been delivered today, so just pop them

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great thing to do. Well. We always appreciate your time, Paul.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so very much for coming in and having

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Speaker 1: a chat with us, and yeah, all the best with

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Speaker 1: this food drive. Can you let us know how it

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Speaker 1: all goes and how are you're tracking By the end

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Speaker 1: of the week, we'll be talking.

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Speaker 2: To you every day. We'll call into the station if

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Speaker 2: we can have a chat.

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Speaker 1: Someone give us a ring and tell us how it's going.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. Thanks so much for having a chat

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Speaker 1: this morning. No worries, it all