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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Just by my daughter's been eighteen and twenty, they still

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Speaker 2: one a Chocolate Advent calendar and this makes me so happy.

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Speaker 2: The little girls they were are still there. They're still alive,

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Speaker 2: the spirit of them Chocolate Advent calendars. As a kid,

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Speaker 2: the Chocolate Advent Canada, opening up the tiny little door,

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Speaker 2: getting the tiny little chocolate was part of the part

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Speaker 2: of Christmas to me, just loved it.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't allowed to have the chocolate one. We just

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Speaker 3: have the picture one. What do you mean the picture

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Speaker 3: one is just literally that you open the door and

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Speaker 3: you get to look at a new picture each day.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, child?

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Speaker 1: And did they wheel that out each year so you

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Speaker 1: knew what was behind it?

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Speaker 3: Still a new one, same thing made out of.

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Speaker 4: Mightly one of the saddest things I've heard about a kid.

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Speaker 3: Christmas were years before I even knew there was chocolate version.

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Speaker 4: Open it that the old title.

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Speaker 3: Man, you'd open it and like see picture of a

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Speaker 3: cottage in the snow, Jesus holding a baby Lamb and

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Speaker 3: my brother I still fought over who would open Jealous

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Speaker 3: of your daughters that got the chocolate.

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Speaker 2: So Patsy, do you what does Ally do? Does she

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Speaker 2: still want the chocolate Advent calendar?

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Speaker 4: Please? Please please?

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Speaker 1: So we've graduated from the chocolate one that you get

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Speaker 1: at the supermarket. There's all sorts of retailers that have

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Speaker 1: Advent calendars now. So she loves the sports girl one

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Speaker 1: and it's really cool. They might have like, you know,

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Speaker 1: a hair tie or a lip glass or a scrunchy,

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Speaker 1: something like.

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Speaker 4: Five.

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Speaker 1: It is like a month long one jacket's fantastic, So

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Speaker 1: I figure that's probably better.

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Speaker 4: Three small things.

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Speaker 3: The hair tie, the scrunchy pretty similar already, the lip

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Speaker 3: glass three weeks to fill.

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Speaker 1: There's an eye shadow, there's a face mask. It's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Body do I supposed to say?

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Speaker 4: This is a this is your Christmas? By the way,

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Speaker 4: you're owning it up each day?

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Speaker 1: And Rosy the elf? Are you doing the elf yet?

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Speaker 1: With Gordy?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: And I didn't have the elf as a kid either.

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Speaker 4: This is when I moved the elf every night, the

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Speaker 4: elf on the.

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Speaker 2: Shelves, Elf on the shell I always saw that's a

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Speaker 2: real creepy thing to say to your kid, that there's

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Speaker 2: an old guy watching you online somewhere seeing if you've been.

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Speaker 1: Good or bad so of Elfie. Rosie normally brings it

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Speaker 1: on December one, I'm sure as.

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Speaker 3: A kid, no elf no chocolate calendar, no.

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Speaker 2: Heart actually breaking my heart and perhassly, what about you?

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Speaker 2: Because I I my wife buys me a chocolate advent calendar.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love it because then when I get up

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Speaker 2: in the morning, you know it cooked bust four and I

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Speaker 2: have little chocolates to treating my cup of tea.

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Speaker 4: That's my Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I've never bought one myself, but you can get some

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Speaker 1: brilliant ones like Mecca's got them this.

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Speaker 3: But what did you have as a kid?

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Speaker 1: Didn't have them? You know what my mom used.

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Speaker 4: To do with come on your mum and dad a

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Speaker 4: lovely bit. I bet they did.

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Speaker 1: Mum did other stuff they weren't around we had. Mum

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Speaker 1: used to get bits.

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Speaker 5: Of tea around for December, slaughtering ponies obviously the way

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Speaker 5: you paint this black and white sep toned child that

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Speaker 5: never existed of like Uncle's punching men up in the air.

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Speaker 4: They weren't around twenty We never saw him for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember Mum getting bits of tinsel and she'd

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Speaker 1: thread like life savers on them and she'd make life

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Speaker 1: save in their closes. So that was our version of

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Speaker 1: the Advent calendar. But we'd eat it all at once.

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Speaker 4: I just love are you getting out in calendar? Yes?

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Speaker 3: I bought mine, and my parents always used to get

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Speaker 3: us one, and even that smell. I got bought that

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Speaker 3: had been calendar from coals, and I put it up

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Speaker 3: against my nose.

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Speaker 4: Oh Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and then every day you get a little tree, and.

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Speaker 2: The smallness mates the treat. If it was an entire

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Speaker 2: chocolate bar, you don't enjoy it the same.

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Speaker 3: But as an adult do you find it difficult to

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Speaker 3: withhold from just opening all the doors? Because how do

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Speaker 3: you not eat one on day one and go? I'll

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Speaker 3: just have to horrifores.

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Speaker 2: Because a keyword there was because I'm an adult, I

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Speaker 2: have some kind of impulse control.

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Speaker 4: And also I can just buy chocolate with special.

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Speaker 1: How good is it though? When you forget one day

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Speaker 1: and then one day you've got like double.

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Speaker 2: See that's what I like me in a couple of days,

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Speaker 2: and then I just I would I just binge out

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Speaker 2: and have a five door special and then I'll lying

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Speaker 2: on the floor in a sugar heart.

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Speaker 3: That was but three pictures in one day, century over.

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Speaker 2: Jesus on a swing was in one of them. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to buy you for Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Tomorrow, Christian Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Were you not allowed as a kid or you denied?

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Speaker 2: Poor young Jack? Post toned a chocolate advent calendar? Someone

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Speaker 2: else also the same one that you went with pictures

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Speaker 2: from Debbie. Yes, Jack, we have the same calendar in

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Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties. See it's okay in the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 2: You're a child of the two thousands, sixties.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you get it. The war has ended, you know.

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Speaker 2: And we had the same But in the nineteen sixties,

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Speaker 2: my nan lived next door and she put it out

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Speaker 2: each year. My brother and I took took a turn

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Speaker 2: to open a day and see the picture.

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Speaker 3: This was still a cardboard one that was renewed every year,

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Speaker 3: so mom was obviously buying it from somewhere. Someone was

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Speaker 3: selling it, which means there was a market for the

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Speaker 3: picture of vin calendar.

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Speaker 2: Christian. What was I never allowed as a kid? Listening

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Speaker 2: to you from the Gold Coast today, wanting to Chris

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Speaker 2: my parents this is a shocking one.

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Speaker 4: Jack.

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Speaker 2: My parents owned a toy shop when I was a

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Speaker 2: kid and I was denied any new toys. The only

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Speaker 2: toys I was allowed were the ones that have been

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Speaker 2: returned because they were broken.

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Speaker 4: Chris, No, this is this is Bob Cratchett territory. This

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Speaker 4: is Scrooge.

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Speaker 2: This is breaking my heart today. No more these ones

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Speaker 2: at Christmas? Right, They're just too sad.

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Speaker 4: That is so shining. Not for you, young Chris stoic.

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Speaker 4: Can you do more than like a stoic?

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Speaker 3: Can look at the store you'll get ideas.

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Speaker 2: Christian, I don't have anything for the show today. I

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Speaker 2: just want to say what the hell's going on with

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Speaker 2: Jack's papers concerns this Christian? Only good Advent Canada is

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Speaker 2: the whiskey one. You'll thank me later, No, Marcus, I won't. Actually,

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Speaker 2: you don't need booze in them.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe how many alternative to chocolate Advent.

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Speaker 4: Calendar is there are? The booze ones, naked wines?

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Speaker 3: Does one so a bottle of wine for the twenty

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Speaker 3: five days of December up until Christmas? At Tiffany's one?

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Speaker 3: Will you get a piece of gold necklaces, earrings, brooches?

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Speaker 2: Wow, Christian, I had the best Advalent Canada last year

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Speaker 2: I bought the Bilson's Vodka Advalent Canada. It had different

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Speaker 2: a different favorite can of Bilson's vodka behind each window,

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Speaker 2: and there was the added suspense of finding the golden can.

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Speaker 4: I've got the golden can? Which one you have?

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Speaker 2: Fully stopped, mini fridge filled with yep, Bilson's vodka, and

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Speaker 2: a tour through the brewery. This was by far the

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Speaker 2: best I find calendar. Let's go to Sarah here. Good morning, Sarah,

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Speaker 2: good morning. So well you denied the chocolate Advent Canada

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Speaker 2: as well as a kid, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember having them.

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Speaker 4: So and what do you do now? Do do you overcorrect?

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Speaker 1: I absolutely do. Every year I have at least three.

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Speaker 1: You can all get them as well, my children all

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Speaker 1: get them, and my husband.

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Speaker 4: But this year I've got espresso.

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Speaker 1: Coffee pods, I've got a perfume calendar, and I've got

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Speaker 1: a Lego calendar.

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Speaker 2: Well, we three treats every day? Do you one in

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Speaker 2: the morning, one at lunchtime, one in the evening. Do

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Speaker 2: you spread them out?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Sometimes the coffee will obviously be in the morning. In

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Speaker 4: the morning as well, and then.

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Speaker 3: What's the Lego one break ad day?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: No, and you can make your own. Next year's candar

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Speaker 4: made that lego.

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Speaker 1: No, it makes a Christmas scene. Last year I had.

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Speaker 4: Harry Pottering more Christmas than Marry Potter.

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Speaker 1: I also had a cheese Edmund calendar last year and

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Speaker 1: a damn Edmund calendar cheese.

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Speaker 2: One yes and cheese one's great. Yeah, Sarah, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much.

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Speaker 4: You cool. Keep this coming. Then what were you not

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