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Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: All right, So we're going to do this in the

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Speaker 1: next half an hour and it's I think something you'll

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Speaker 1: the story of your year in six words. Now. The

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Speaker 1: reason why it's six years six words is that actually hemingway,

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Speaker 1: a story in just six words. So this year, when

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Speaker 1: you think about what's happened in your life, in our lives,

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Speaker 1: Oh four seventy five three one oh four three We

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Speaker 1: What's this year? What is your year in six words?

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Speaker 1: There must have been a scary time. You were dad

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Speaker 2: It's all embracing, and there's an enormous amount of support,

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Speaker 1: All right, Keithi's coming. They're lovely, by the way, And

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Speaker 1: And even before the show, we're all talking about next year,

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Speaker 1: because we are. I've spent seven years of my life

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Speaker 1: allowing yourself to receive just all the blessings we've had

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Speaker 1: the wrong way to live your life. It's all about now.

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Speaker 1: And you look back at your year and like what

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Speaker 1: you've been through that have been so much laughter in

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Speaker 1: leaving year and the growing year, and then send it

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Speaker 1: to me tonight. If you want, Christian at Christian O'Connell

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