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Speaker 3: Got anything good?

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Speaker 4: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jo, next half an hour. I think you'd

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Speaker 2: enjoy this if I take a bit of time. But

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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 were

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Morning, and what is yours? Because you actually have done

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Speaker 1: time in the UK radio, which is why you so good?

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Speaker 5: 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? Not at all, that's bad. She's upgraded yours,

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Speaker 1: she has upgraded actually see he goes again. It's brilliant, Tina.

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Speaker 1: So was here, went there? Yeah, back here, wonderful. Do

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

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Speaker 5: It's two years?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nicely back here though, love being back here because

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Speaker 2: it sounded like.

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Speaker 1: We were a runner up to what you did in

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Speaker 1: the UK.

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Speaker 3: No, both great moments both love have loved life all three?

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Speaker 1: Oh lovely sit 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 2: Not yet?

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Speaker 3: 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 popcorn gets What is.

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Speaker 3: It not a family bag? It is only seventy six calories.

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Speaker 3: I am on a calorie deficit diet at the moment

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Speaker 3: for my wedding.

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

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Speaker 3: You eat so much. You just don't eat bad stuff

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Speaker 3: like you don't.

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Speaker 1: Eat corner am am to.

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Speaker 3: Us is midday, guys. I get up at three fifty am.

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Speaker 3: It's late in the day for me. And it's a

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Speaker 3: great show that I get to watch from the popcorn.

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Speaker 2: Oh she's good, okay? Is that these six word life

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Speaker 2: so far? Great show watched with popcorn? What's yours? Mac

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Speaker 2: myne Is?

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Speaker 3: Didn't think I could?

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Speaker 5: I did?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's beautiful, that's really nice, Alice Color, what's shells?

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Speaker 1: Mate? Your life's so far? In six words?

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Speaker 5: Country city, Sydney Melbourne, husband dad?

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Speaker 1: Can you go again?

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Speaker 5: Country City, Sydney, Melbourne, husband dad?

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Speaker 1: Beautiful soldier spy Yes, he's a spy.

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Speaker 5: 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 2: It's an old timey world, but I love the country bumpkins. Patsy,

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Speaker 2: what's mate? You've had an extraordinary life.

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Speaker 4: This is really hard. I don't know if I can

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Speaker 4: do it in six words, but I've initially written not

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Speaker 4: sure but comfortable as me. So you know in your

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Speaker 4: twenties where you never feel your enough and you've got

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Speaker 4: all these hopes and dreams, what am I going to do?

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Speaker 4: And then you go through the next decade of For me,

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Speaker 4: it was not being able to have a baby, and

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Speaker 4: forties was having my baby and getting this awesome job.

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Speaker 5: It's like this.

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Speaker 4: Big journey all the way through that I can encapsulate

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Speaker 4: in decades to this point. And really there are no

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Speaker 4: six words that can describe all that I have been through.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't seem to be well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for going for the feature today.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully the listeners 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 right.

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Speaker 2: Now, an invitation to tell me your life story so

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

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Speaker 2: four seven five three one oh four three Jill the news.

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

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

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Speaker 2: fifty two? Actually born in England, but found myself here.

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Speaker 1: Riah, what's yours? Mate? You've had an interesting light so far.

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Speaker 1: I've got a couple.

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Speaker 5: First one two degrees never used now radio.

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

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Speaker 1: And the most in texted. Paying that off for a while.

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Speaker 5: 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 5: 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 wat's all going?

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Speaker 2: All right, some of the ones that are coming in from

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Speaker 2: everyone this morning. So it's your life so far in

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Speaker 2: six words? Text me four seventy five three one o

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Speaker 2: four three. All of the ones that I'm about to

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Speaker 2: read out right now are all six words. Okay, they're

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Speaker 2: really good all of a sudden, middle aged. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean I'm fifty two. I come sure because be for

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Speaker 2: me and Pats. It doesn't feel like you wake up

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Speaker 2: one morning and you wait, what but you look in

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Speaker 2: the mirror and you meet yourself as a middle aged person.

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Speaker 2: You're like, bloody hell, how do we get here so quickly?

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Speaker 2: What happened to you?

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Speaker 1: Christian? Suddenly you 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.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like a new TV show dress.

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Speaker 2: Ten Nights on Renovation, Renovation, Renovation. This is Megan's from

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Speaker 2: Little Things, Big Things Grow. I love this from Gay Chatterton.

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Speaker 2: My life's journey has made me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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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: That's not 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 1: Life got better Ben. We're glad he survived as well. Mate.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations. This is Luke crazy beginning. What when you at zero?

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Speaker 5: What a story?

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Speaker 1: It is crazy? Suddenly you get evicted from there? So

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Speaker 1: cozy in there for nine months? So well, hell are you?

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Speaker 1: We'll be back. Yes, it's 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 seventy five, O three one, O four three.

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