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Speaker 1: Got anything good.

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

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Speaker 3: I'm going to find out what is this week's country

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Speaker 3: of the week. At any moment this week. If you've

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Speaker 3: got a story, can be as loosely connected as you

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Speaker 3: have it with that country, you can call or email.

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Speaker 3: Last week it was Italy, and we had some amazing

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Speaker 3: stories on Friday Show about Italy.

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Speaker 4: Today we go we stay in Europe. We're off too France.

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Speaker 3: Now, before I go on and we hear any stories

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Speaker 3: about the French, can I just say, for the record,

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Speaker 3: on the record, a beautiful country, full of beautiful people,

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Speaker 3: beautiful scenery, beautiful wine and food. Can I also say

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Speaker 3: I haven't been there many times. The rudest people on earth,

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Speaker 3: Oh my word, they do not care whether or not

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Speaker 3: you like their country or like their food. I think

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Speaker 3: I was to telling you a couple of months ago.

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Speaker 3: My wife and I were there a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: and we just had a beautiful dinner in Powers and

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Speaker 3: I said to the guy that this was one of

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Speaker 3: the best meals of her life, and he.

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Speaker 4: Went, okay, whatever.

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Speaker 5: She was, who cares? Of course, you're in Paris in

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Speaker 5: my restaurant.

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Speaker 3: I remember the there so, and I weren't married, we

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Speaker 3: don't just been going out together and went on the

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Speaker 3: euro Start. We can go on a train from London

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Speaker 3: and he gets you to parents and goes under the

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Speaker 3: under the sea and it's.

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Speaker 4: An amazing way. You've been on it, Yes, we've been

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Speaker 4: on it. It's exciting, isn't it. It's so fun.

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Speaker 3: And we're having dinner together. And I know a little

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Speaker 3: bit of French, so I thought I would show off

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Speaker 3: to my new girlfriend that I knew some French.

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Speaker 4: So I was trying to order for us. So I

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Speaker 4: was like, uh on du glass.

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Speaker 3: Rush and then I started to order more on the

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Speaker 3: guy went, don't even bother.

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Speaker 4: Okay, can we have the steak with the chips? Don't

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Speaker 4: even bother? Just cut me off at the knees. Nothing.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, we're looking for your stories anything to do

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Speaker 3: with France on nine four one four one four three

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Speaker 3: participating Give us some facts about France.

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Speaker 6: Oh yes, So, France is located in Western Europe and

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Speaker 6: it's known for its rich history, culture and influence. It

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Speaker 6: is the most visited country in the world. That would

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Speaker 6: be America, attracting millions of tourists.

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Speaker 5: And you're more than America because you think about Disneyland.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no.

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Speaker 6: People love France. They're there all the time, heaps of.

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Speaker 4: Them, and they have their own Disneyland. That's right, they do.

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Speaker 4: Even the cartoon animals are quite nonschan.

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Speaker 6: French cuisine is recognized as a NESCo cultural heritage, known

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Speaker 6: for its diverse dishes and traditions.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what strange man.

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Speaker 6: Some famous people from France Coco Chanel, fashion designer Victor Hugo,

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Speaker 6: renowned writ are best known for Lame is rab and

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Speaker 6: the Hunchback.

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Speaker 3: Of Natre Dame, very good, French frackstare Cagan. Now have

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Speaker 3: you been to France?

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Speaker 7: I have, yes, Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Do you like it?

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Speaker 6: It was stunning. I had the time of my life.

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Speaker 6: I spent five days there. I slept on a bed

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Speaker 6: on a floor, but I was happy as Larry.

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Speaker 4: And how did you find the French?

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Speaker 6: Exactly how you explained it. So I went into this

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Speaker 6: French petisserie one day and I thought, oh my god,

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Speaker 6: like a ham chasee croissant and I'm like, I'm in friends.

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Speaker 4: I was so cultural, perfect place to get one.

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Speaker 6: So I walked into this pit.

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Speaker 3: I believe you do a toast. In my country, we

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Speaker 3: Can have a ham cross please?

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Speaker 6: So I'm walking and this French woman obviously behind the counter,

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Speaker 6: and I said, can I please have a ham and

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Speaker 4: Was like, we do it all the time, yeah, missing

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Speaker 6: And I said can you do it?

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Speaker 4: And she said no, you feel so smaller.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it, and so I just said, just

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Speaker 6: I bite into it without a doubt. We should not

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Speaker 4: It was the most beautiful, yeah.

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Speaker 6: Beautiful buttery crunch. And I literally went back and I

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Speaker 2: That was it.

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Speaker 5: I couldn't believe.

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Speaker 4: I love that story. Have anything on a jam or.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they're very I think they use an awful lot

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Speaker 4: And they're not as flaky as the ones we get elsewhere.

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Speaker 3: Around the world where about ninety percent the thing you're wearing.

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Speaker 6: It nothing fresher than this and as just as oh

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Speaker 6: my god, as you've been into it, just like do

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Speaker 6: everything the way you.

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Speaker 4: Went a little bit French there, Bob.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell show, Go on podcast, Go on into listener,

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Speaker 2: Emma Christian, listen to how Jack's three year old son

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Speaker 2: Gordon's hidden for the second time the Teava remote years

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Speaker 2: ago when my now ten year old was two, we

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Speaker 2: were wondering, how is he eaten these pike.

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Speaker 3: Clips so quickly and coming back for more. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: until we went to put a video in the VHS player.

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Speaker 4: I discovered that he must have thought it was more

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Speaker 4: hungry than he was. Christian.

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Speaker 3: My advice, this is great advice from parent Emma. Good

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Speaker 3: luck with Jack search expect the unexpected. Yeah, that's a

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Speaker 3: great advice there, and thank you very much for that.

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Speaker 3: All right, So country of the Week this week.

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Speaker 4: France.

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Speaker 3: Looking for any stories you have involving France. You might

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Speaker 3: have had a French pen pal pen pals your store.

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Speaker 4: We were made to do one at school. Yeah, we were.

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Speaker 4: Pempe was in Nebraska, USA, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd love to know a young kids still doing

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Speaker 4: I thought it was a really good thing to do.

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Speaker 3: You used to have to write, write the letter with

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Speaker 3: photos and tell them about your life. Yes, yeah, mine

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Speaker 3: was you know what it was. It was a French

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Speaker 4: He had He's a.

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Speaker 5: Kid, make it up, cord, Okay, make it up. Claude

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Speaker 5: made some stuff up, surely living in France.

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Speaker 4: There's more to tell him about.

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Speaker 3: All I know is he had a brown cheval a

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Speaker 3: it's a horse. So any stories to do with France?

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Speaker 3: found out that France, I did not know this is

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Speaker 4: Yes, one hundred million international tourists per year, followed by Spain,

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Speaker 4: the USA, Italy and Turkey at number five. All right,

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Speaker 4: let's go to Kelly.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Kelly, Hello, good morning.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to show, Kelly. So what's your story involving France.

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Speaker 1: My story is very similar to Caitlin's. I met a

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Speaker 1: French lady and she said no, no, no, no to

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Speaker 1: me and my husband. We were in a little grocery

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Speaker 1: just getting a few little staples, a bottle of red wine,

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Speaker 1: a bottle of bubbles, some baghette, and some cheese, and

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Speaker 1: we were getting up towards the cash register and this

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Speaker 1: little French lady came up to us, looked in our basket,

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Speaker 1: took the wine out, put it back on the shelf,

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Speaker 1: and gave us two different bottles.

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Speaker 4: I love that though. That's so good. When she worked

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Speaker 4: at the store, she was just another customer.

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Speaker 1: I think we were just in her little corner store.

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Speaker 1: She was there with her beret and her little dog,

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Speaker 1: and she literally looked in our basket and went, no, no, not.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to see a bit more than supermarkets where

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Speaker 3: it would just go no.

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Speaker 4: I've put some greens in there and some fruit beer

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Speaker 4: grown up? Okay, all right? And how was the wine? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The wine was amazing. I'm glad she shall slop them over.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're right.

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Speaker 3: I mean it is that that bread and that butter

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Speaker 3: they have. Oh my god, there's something mount French. But

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Speaker 3: I don't know what they do, probably tons of salt

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Speaker 4: Keny, great story, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 8: Have a good day you do you see.

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Speaker 4: Kevin, Good morning, Kevin.

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Speaker 8: Good morning guys.

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Speaker 7: Yes here you going were My wife and I are

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Speaker 7: your fatal accident at Disneyland in Paris. My wife wanted

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Speaker 7: go on a roller coaster ride, which I thought it

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Speaker 7: And he turns around and says, you're too old, you

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Speaker 4: No one says that to an assy.

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Speaker 8: So we got onto the got over to the roller

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Speaker 7: And this bloat walks along the platform, stands on it

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Speaker 9: I've almost passed out there. Anyway, the thing takes off

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Speaker 9: at about a million miles an hour, and I've got

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Speaker 9: high blood pressure and I thought it's not going to be good. Oh,

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Speaker 9: and next minute it proceeds to.

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Speaker 8: Do three or four loop the loop. I looked at

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Speaker 9: She's heavily breathing. I'm just about to pass out, and

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Speaker 9: I just we both had our shut We couldn't tell

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Speaker 8: It's just going that fast. We eventually come.

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Speaker 7: Back to the platform and they released this thing and

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Speaker 7: I think all the blood rushs in my head and

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Speaker 7: I've literally passed out.

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Speaker 10: In the in the in the in the They took

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Speaker 10: two of us to two of these little French being

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Speaker 10: to try and help me out. And this bloke who

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Speaker 10: said no, you're too old, he was getting on the

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Speaker 10: platform laughing.

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Speaker 4: He's got the ultimate. I told him so. Only the

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Speaker 4: kids must have thought you by the right, oh bright

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Speaker 4: Red that all day they put on a show.

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Speaker 3: The French Who it's Issy? Then you know we would

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Speaker 3: have loved that, Kevin. Great story, very funny.

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