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

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Speaker 1: Perhaps how's your week off? What do you get up too?

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Speaker 3: Now? We flew up to Sydney, had the most sensational

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Speaker 3: long weekend up there.

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Speaker 4: The minute you land the weather was incredible, so you.

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Speaker 1: Were their grand final weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you hate footy Victoria on that Thursday show when

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Speaker 2: we were going you don't really big footy fan?

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Speaker 1: I fight you on.

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Speaker 2: No one likes it harder than me, No one likes

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Speaker 2: it more than me. And we've put those flights to

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Speaker 2: get out of the city as soon as everyone starts

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Speaker 2: a roving. The hair has been so quite going out

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Speaker 2: of Melbourne as the country is coming into.

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Speaker 4: It against the time.

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Speaker 3: No, it was funny because we had to be back

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Speaker 3: at them at the hotel by like one or twelve thirty,

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Speaker 3: so Chris could sit in front of the telly and

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Speaker 3: watch the TV and Audrey and I thought, oh no,

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Speaker 3: we're going to go out.

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Speaker 4: But the weather was great.

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Speaker 3: It was like thirty thirty one sunshine.

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Speaker 2: Now tell me there's Pats and be honest, right, and

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Speaker 2: some of lists might not realize there's some show news.

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Speaker 2: But from January next year we're going live into Sydney

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Speaker 2: and all of Australia in the morning, right, So very

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Speaker 2: very exciting times. Were you also scoping out ahead of

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Speaker 2: our you know, us being on air.

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Speaker 4: In Sydney, Yeah, of course it was.

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Speaker 2: That sent me a very bad photo right of Sydney

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Speaker 2: Harbour Bridge, and well a third of it was Sydney

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Speaker 2: Harbor Bridge. Two thirds of was a church. And at

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Speaker 2: first I didn't know whether she'd had a conversion. Was like,

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Speaker 2: what are we seeing here? She's found the Lord, I said,

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Speaker 2: and she was like, it's just hit me, what's happening.

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Speaker 2: It was like it's like she heard me two months

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Speaker 2: ago say we're going national. And then she got to

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Speaker 2: Sydney saw the Harbor Bridge went oh, he means Sydney.

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Speaker 2: So that's the place with the bridge. Go into that

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Speaker 2: church and say prayer for us. It's a lot of

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Speaker 2: upset Jones and Amanda fans like a candle, like candle

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Speaker 2: for the show.

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Speaker 4: This is the enormity.

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Speaker 3: When we landed, I thought, hang on, we're actually doing this.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, we are doing this, and it's not

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Speaker 3: until you've sort of engulfed in the city and how

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Speaker 3: massive it is and it's such a beautiful place. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I went to the theater there and saw Back to

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Speaker 3: the Future the musical, which was brilliant, out of this

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Speaker 3: world and the highlight at the end, which I didn't

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Speaker 3: know was going to happen.

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Speaker 4: Co creator Bob gail.

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Speaker 1: Oh, co writer, Yeah, with Robert Samachis.

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Speaker 4: Yes, came out on stage.

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Speaker 3: He was there for like the first few performances and

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Speaker 3: spoke for like ten minutes.

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Speaker 4: Just insane. If you get a chance, get up there

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Speaker 4: and see it. It is brilliant.

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Speaker 3: At the Lyric Theater, it was just honestly, hands down,

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Speaker 3: the best thing I have really ever seen in musical theater.

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Speaker 1: You've seen them all.

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Speaker 3: Outsta outstanding, and the Dolorean is there. It comes out

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Speaker 3: over the I don't want to give too much away,

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Speaker 2: If our listeners are going to go and see that,

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Speaker 2: it came out over the ground spoiler alert, Oh no, surely.

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Speaker 2: When you get there you probably see like a hydraulic

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Speaker 3: The way they do it is just fantastic. Shocked with

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Speaker 3: getting there was was a bit of a drama. I

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Speaker 3: say so apparently since we last flew with a certain airline,

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Speaker 3: they're check in has now like blown out double. You've

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Speaker 3: got to be there like doubly early. And we didn't

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Speaker 3: know that, and so we flew out of Avalon. When

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Speaker 3: because all the boomgates were stuck down. So I don't

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Speaker 3: know if you've been to Avalon, but it's a little

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Speaker 2: It's that thing you accidentally go when you go, my god,

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Speaker 2: this flights is so cheap, and you go, you say, Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: all airports the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Get out of the car, flee into the terminal. This

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Speaker 3: was at five am. We had a six am flight,

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Speaker 3: and we're think, no, it's okay, we're still.

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Speaker 1: What you got there at five?

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Speaker 4: Oh it's stacks of toe.

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Speaker 1: No, I would have been there.

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Speaker 2: It's four no domestic, No wait, no, no, no, those boom.

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Speaker 3: Gates open at four anyway, they weren't working. So I

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Speaker 3: had to track down the security guy and he said, oh, no,

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Speaker 4: Anyway, we sorted that out.

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Speaker 3: So going through, yeah, we went long the long term

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Speaker 4: And it was dark. You couldn't see.

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Speaker 1: The chance of those boom gates being stuck.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the other version of the story is,

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Speaker 2: but it's some of the Griswolves turning up late.

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Speaker 4: Well, we're never late for flights. This is a thing.

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Speaker 1: We came there at five for six floor.

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Speaker 4: It's fine.

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Speaker 3: So we get there, but like five twenty two and

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Speaker 3: the flight closed at five twenty and she said, look,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but you've missed the flight. And we're like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but everyone's lining up to go through security and she said, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: it closes at like, you know, four minutes before now.

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Speaker 3: And I said, isn't it thirty? She goes, no, it's forty.

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Speaker 3: And I said, oh gosh, I didn't realize. And so

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Speaker 3: we're standing there. What are we going to do?

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I didn't realize. You do everyone knows.

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Speaker 4: No, didn't realize. We don't for.

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Speaker 1: Two minutes before the flight.

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Speaker 3: We don't check in like you know when you get

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Speaker 3: the email check in for your flight now.

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Speaker 4: We don't do that. We like what I like to

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Speaker 3: That's inside that literally they have the technology to do.

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Speaker 2: We've got to get plug the computer in to the landlight.

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Speaker 2: Why do you want am when you get that five am?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: I just figure.

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Speaker 3: I had one case to check in, which was mine, right,

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Speaker 3: a big case, and I thought, well, we've got to

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Speaker 3: check the case in anyway, so I'll just check.

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Speaker 1: So no one else, your husband or do it to

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Speaker 1: no clothes. You just had your case.

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Speaker 3: Well they had they had carry on, so they had

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Speaker 3: We had two carry on cases, which one was already

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Speaker 4: And so she said, hang on, let me get the manager.

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Speaker 3: And Chris is like, I don't understand why we've got

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Speaker 3: tickets And I said, oh no, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You could just rock up when you want. It's how

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Speaker 2: it works around the world, that system. They closed the gate.

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Speaker 2: It's very clear. Everyone knows.

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Speaker 4: Four times I realized it had changed anyway.

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Speaker 3: So the manager came and she said, look, I've got

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Speaker 3: you on the flight. I said, oh, thank you, that's

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Speaker 3: so awesome. But she said, baggage has obviously closed, so

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Speaker 4: You can only do carry on.

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Speaker 3: I thought, oh, she said, you've got like literally two

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Speaker 4: And onto the plane.

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Speaker 3: So it was we were Audrey and I were on

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Speaker 3: all fours, chucking stuff across the floor.

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Speaker 1: Chris is just.

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Speaker 4: Standing there, not.

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Speaker 1: Horror fi.

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Speaker 3: There were bras, there were niggers, there were shoes, there

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Speaker 3: was a hair dryer.

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Speaker 4: It was just ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, what a look morning.

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Speaker 4: And Chris is like, oh, we'll just get a later flight.

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Speaker 4: And I said, we can't get a later flight. They're

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Speaker 4: all book that stop.

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Speaker 3: You help anyway, having a meltdown, that just is not

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Speaker 3: my finest moment. So everyone else in security was like

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Speaker 3: laughing looking at us, and I thought, I can't care.

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Speaker 4: I can't care. How ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 2: So I said to Christy, didn't have to detonate border patrol.

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Speaker 4: I said, leave the suitcase back again. We need to

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Speaker 4: just forget.

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Speaker 1: Just got a suitcase.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot of suspicious anyway.

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Speaker 3: The manager said, you're going to have to take the

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Speaker 4: I said to Chris, you need to run. Of course

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Speaker 4: he did so he laing you back to the car,

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Speaker 3: Car while Audrey and I went through security, and then

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Speaker 3: as he came to go through security, there was something

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Speaker 3: wrong with the belt and it stopped and we're like

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Speaker 3: waving at the gate, like come on, come on.

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Speaker 4: It was just too close.

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Speaker 1: This whole thing, this whole thing ridiculous. The rest of the.

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Speaker 2: Flight passes must been up in there and going Melbourne

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Speaker 2: Bogan newsreader from.

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Speaker 3: It was just oh man, so yeah, you got this

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Speaker 3: we got on the plane. I say, I don't understand

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Speaker 3: what just happened. I don't know what clothes I've got.

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Speaker 3: I've got one shoe, I've got one dress. I don't

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Speaker 3: know what else I've got.

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Speaker 4: Don't know even if.

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Speaker 2: I've got scraping out Sydney, Watch out Jones, Amanda. There's

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