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Speaker 2: You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,

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

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Speaker 2: All right, during the next half an hour. I think

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Speaker 2: you'd enjoy this if I take a bit of time.

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Speaker 2: But if you're at work or you're driving at the moment,

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Speaker 2: you've got a bit long drive during the next hour

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Speaker 2: or so, you might enjoy this challenge. In six words,

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Speaker 2: no more than six words, no less than six words,

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Speaker 2: in exactly six words, tell me the story of your

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Speaker 2: life so far in just six words. So before the

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Speaker 2: show I was playing with mine, right, so there's a

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Speaker 2: couple of different drafts.

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Speaker 1: I've got here.

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Speaker 2: Six word life so far was over there. Now over

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Speaker 2: here I can go into a bit more detail on

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Speaker 2: that midlife crisis. Move down under. That's the headline read.

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Speaker 2: And then if you really had to sum me up,

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Speaker 2: married with daughters, love, being Dad's love, that's that's me.

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Speaker 2: That's me. Ultimately, I would say that's it. Married with daughters,

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Speaker 2: love being dad. That's my life so far in six words.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the Chuckle Sisters, which is producers Caitlin

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Speaker 2: and Tina. They are literally like the chuckle are coming

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Speaker 2: this morning. They already laugh their heads off. They're literally

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Speaker 2: just the chairs were shaking with laughter. They're like stat

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Speaker 2: and Waldorf for the show out there. Let's go to

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Speaker 2: the chuckle sisters. See what there are? Six words? Life

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Speaker 2: so far now, Tina, I know that actually you did

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Speaker 2: work in the in the Tina. Good morning, Tina morning,

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Speaker 2: and what is yours? Because you actually have done time

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Speaker 2: in UK radio, which is why you so good?

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. So my NIE's was here, went there?

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Speaker 3: Back here?

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Speaker 1: Shade on mine?

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Speaker 2: Not at all.

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Speaker 1: That's upgraded yours.

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Speaker 2: She has upgraded. Actually see he goes again. It's brilliant, Tina.

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Speaker 3: So was here, went there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Back here?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a nice time over there?

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Speaker 3: Great time? It's two years?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Nicely back here though, love being back here because it

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Speaker 2: sounded like we were a runner up to what you

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Speaker 2: did in the UK.

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Speaker 4: No, both great moments both love have loved life all three?

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Speaker 1: Oh lovely sit that Tina.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's see how old mate is today. Bounced

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Speaker 2: up and down the chair. You had your popcorn yet, Caitlin?

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Speaker 4: Not yet? That's normally like an a.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen this team?

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Speaker 2: This is a new thing now where every morning about

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Speaker 2: eight o'clock Cainaan thinks she's at Hoyts and will suddenly

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Speaker 2: start watching me do the breaks and chomping on a

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Speaker 2: massive family bag of popcorne.

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Speaker 4: What is it not a family bag? It is only

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Speaker 4: seventy six calories. I am on a calorie deficit diet

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Speaker 4: at the moment for my wedding.

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Speaker 1: Do you need to do that yourself? Hell no, no, you.

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Speaker 4: Eat so much. You just don't eat bad stuff like

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Speaker 4: you don't eat corner am a to us is midday guys.

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Speaker 4: I get up at three fifty am. It's late in

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Speaker 4: the day for me. And it's a great show that

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Speaker 4: I get to watch from the popcorn.

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Speaker 1: Oh she's good? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Is that these six word life so far? Great show

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Speaker 2: watched with popcorn? What's yours? Mac myne Is.

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Speaker 4: Didn't think I could.

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: That's really nice. Alice Color, what's shes mate? Your life's

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Speaker 2: so far?

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Speaker 1: In six words?

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Speaker 3: Country city Sydney Melbourne, husband dad? Can you go again?

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Speaker 3: Country City, Sydney, Melbourne, husband dad?

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Speaker 2: Beautiful soldier spy Yes, yes he's a spy.

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Speaker 3: I had another one. Bumpkin come city slicker family love.

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Speaker 1: That's my favorite. There's something about that word bumpkin. I

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Speaker 1: just love. It's an old timey word.

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Speaker 2: But I love the country bumpkins. Patsy, what's shes mate?

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Speaker 2: You've had an extraordinary life.

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Speaker 5: This is really hard. I don't know if I can

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Speaker 5: do it in six words, but I've initially written not

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Speaker 5: sure but comfortable as me. So you know in your

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Speaker 5: all these hopes and dreams, what am I going to do?

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Speaker 5: And then you go through the next decade of For me,

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Speaker 5: forties was having my baby and getting this awesome job.

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Speaker 5: It's like this big journey all the way through that

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Speaker 5: I can encapsulate in decades to this point. And really

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Speaker 5: I have been through. It doesn't seem to be well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for going for the feature today. Hopefully the listeners

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Speaker 1: can actually take the time to do it.

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Speaker 2: Texting Yours four seventy five three one oh four three.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Right now, an invitation to tell me your life story

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Speaker 2: so far in six words words you can text me

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Speaker 2: oh four seven five three one oh four three, Jill

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Speaker 2: the news. I've had another think here's mine born in England,

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Speaker 2: found myself here. That's how would sum up my life

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Speaker 2: at fifty two, actually born in England, but found myself

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Speaker 2: here Ria.

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Speaker 1: What's yours? Mate? You've had an interesting life so far.

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Speaker 3: I've got a couple. First one two degrees never used

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Speaker 3: now radio.

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Speaker 2: You are the most intelligent and overqualified man in Australian radio.

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Speaker 3: And the most in texted.

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Speaker 1: Paying that off for a while.

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Speaker 3: The other one, First girls, now guys, much simpler.

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Speaker 1: Wow, read that again. People might have missed it. Rio.

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Speaker 1: That's very good. There's a lot going on there.

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Speaker 3: First girls, now guys, much simpler.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna end with what next? I

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Speaker 1: was like, Wow, who knows where the w's are going? Sex?

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Speaker 1: All right? Some of the ones that are coming in from

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Speaker 1: everyone this morning.

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Speaker 2: So it's your life so far in six words? Text

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Speaker 2: me four seventy five three one o four three. All

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Speaker 2: of the ones that I'm about to read out right

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Speaker 2: now are all six words.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they're really good.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden middle aged Yeah, I mean I'm

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Speaker 2: fifty two. I come sure, because for me and Pats,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like you wake up one morning and

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Speaker 2: you wait, what but you look in the mirror and

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Speaker 2: you meet yourself as a middle aged person. You're like,

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Speaker 2: bloody hell, how do we get here so quickly?

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Speaker 1: What happened to you?

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Speaker 2: Christian? Suddenly you're an eye doctors. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of everything Blessed. That's from Amanda Armstrong.

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Speaker 2: Matthew's got a lot going on his life so far,

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Speaker 2: met married, Kobe Renovation, renovation, Renovation. That sounds like a

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Speaker 2: new TV Showress ten Nights on Renovation, Renovation, Renovation. This

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Speaker 2: is Megan's from Little Things, Big Things Grow. I love

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Speaker 2: this from Gay Chatterton. My life's journey has made me.

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Speaker 2: I mean sometimes when you look back and you remember

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Speaker 2: the bits where it felt like actually the life's journey

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Speaker 2: was breaking you, I guess that's all part of the

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Speaker 2: remaking at times as well. Heather Struggle, pain, sorrow, grandchildren, happy, proud.

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Speaker 2: I start the circle of life right there, and those

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Speaker 2: they're from Heather ben Ben. This is amazing, Glad I survived,

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Speaker 2: life got better Ben. We're glad he survived as well.

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Speaker 1: Mate. Congratulations. This is Luke crazy beginning. What when you

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Speaker 1: at zero?

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Speaker 3: What a story?

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Speaker 1: It is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly you get evicted from there, so cozy in there

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Speaker 2: for nine months?

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Speaker 1: So well, hell are you We'll be back. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: so bright, so sleeping in there.

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Speaker 2: Crazy beginning now settled, fulfilled heart Luke, lovely stuff, Keep

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Speaker 2: this going, text me your life so far and six

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Speaker 2: words O four seven five, O three one, O four three.

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