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Speaker 2: Got anything good? Hey?

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Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. Can I Alex

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Speaker 1: Cullen here? I was lucky enough to go down to

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Speaker 1: Arden Street, the home of the North Melbourne Kangaroos, see

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Speaker 1: some training, meet the players, and I also sat down

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Speaker 1: with GM of Footy, Todd Viney.

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Speaker 3: The only way is up. Eh.

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Speaker 4: It's been a couple of tough yews, but I think

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Speaker 4: we've seen some good sciences here. You know, we've been

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Speaker 4: much more consistent for lots of lots of the games

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Speaker 4: in the game at three quarters time, but we haven't

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Speaker 4: quite been able to put enough four core efforts together.

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Speaker 4: But you know, we've had some promising signs. You know,

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Speaker 4: you drew with Brisbane and who was a top team

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Speaker 4: of one of the contenders for this year. So there's

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Speaker 4: lots of positives for us, but we want.

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Speaker 3: Us to more.

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Speaker 4: For sure, it's got a click soon, it does like

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Speaker 4: it's just amount of time.

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Speaker 3: We've been working hard.

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Speaker 4: For two years, a lot of heavy lifting and the

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Speaker 4: club is in a really good position with the board

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Speaker 4: and the execs. We're all united, all on the same page,

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Speaker 4: which is a big part of it. I've got some

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Speaker 4: really exciting talent on the field, young and old, and

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Speaker 4: some guys have been there for a while. So now

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Speaker 4: it's amount of just consolidating game plan and performances and

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Speaker 3: More wings and hopefully that coming sooner rather than later. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: just keep working hard. Just a good young list.

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Speaker 5: I love this club.

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Speaker 3: I love where it is. I love sort of here,

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Speaker 3: you know, a bit.

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Speaker 6: Of an industry around, you know, not the big flash

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Speaker 3: It's just a real heart land club. I love it.

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Speaker 3: It is, so it's real. It's got a lot of

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Speaker 3: grid about it. Supprise follow us are very loyal. They

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Speaker 3: keep turning up, you know.

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Speaker 4: If you go out, if we go out on the

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Speaker 4: ground little bit later and you look at that back

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Speaker 4: that way, you see the city skyline.

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Speaker 3: So it is a good spot.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: We're right in the heart of Melbourne. This is where

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Speaker 4: the Kangaroos have always played, you know. So there's lots

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Speaker 4: of history here. Facilities a lot better than they were

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Speaker 4: But this is a lot of history is happening on

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Speaker 6: So good and you got what's the shin bones, isn't it?

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Speaker 6: Why is it called the shin bones?

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Speaker 3: Again, Well, there's lots of different stories.

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Speaker 4: But this lot used to be a lot of meat

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Speaker 4: sale yards, and the stories go back back in the

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Speaker 4: early days that on the Saturday the butchers would have

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Speaker 4: nudg wrapple streamers around the shin bones, and the players

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Speaker 4: and the supporters we're going to game and going past,

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Speaker 4: you know, the blon and white streamers on shinbones. So

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Speaker 4: that was part of the part of the story. But

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Speaker 4: depending on who you speak that, there's lots of different reasons,

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Speaker 4: but there's you know, we talk about shimboner attitude and

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Speaker 4: just showing a real grit and determination, never beaten, try

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Speaker 4: and find a way and over the journey, even off

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Speaker 3: I've tried to move the club a couple of times.

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Speaker 4: And the North Melbourne Faith have said, no, we're not

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Speaker 4: real fighting mentality, real identity. So we've got to try

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Speaker 1: That's it teages, they're going why don't they flagged last year?

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Speaker 4: The Super super team have been very successful on that program.

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Speaker 4: So Darren crock of the coach and it's player in

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Speaker 4: extraordinary to win the flags. Very strong women's program and

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Speaker 4: hopefully we can push the back to back to no

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Speaker 4: other team has done back to back. We shouldn't be

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Speaker 4: talking about back to Bat's all work to be done,

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Speaker 4: but you know, we're confidence that we've got another really

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 6: Definitely, do you reckon you can add one more fan, Todd.

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Speaker 3: We're absolutely wrapped to have you one board. And they've

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Speaker 4: From considering to be part of the Melbourne environment and

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Speaker 4: you've picked a great club.

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Speaker 3: Something's going to be exciting for you to be part of.

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Speaker 4: So see the growth and the talent of some of

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Speaker 3: So we're wrapped heavy on board.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I guess one of your college on

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Speaker 4: your new show, Christian is Melbourne so well, he'd be

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Speaker 4: disappointed with how the Demons are going.

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Speaker 3: But you've you've definitely picked the right I've picked the

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Speaker 3: right team to I'm glad to hear that, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. It's great to be part of it.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to it and I I just love

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Speaker 6: what you guys are about, especially being here and seeing

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Speaker 6: the facilities, and there's a lot of heart here.

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Speaker 3: It's still a lot of marble. Get to meet a

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Speaker 3: few of the players when you're down and it sounds good.

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Speaker 3: Good bunch of.

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Speaker 4: Boys, so I'm sure you can enjoy your enjoying North

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Speaker 4: Melbourne experience.

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Speaker 1: Bringing on And I was lucky enough to meet emmacarney.

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Speaker 1: She's an eight time All Australian was the captain of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four premiership winning team AFLW superstar Emma Carney.

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Speaker 3: I like this club.

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Speaker 6: I like what it's about. What do you like about it, Emma?

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Speaker 6: What do you love about it?

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Speaker 5: The people? I think that's what makes it special.

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Speaker 2: We know that we're not a big club like a

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Speaker 2: Collingwood or cartinoy Essidon, but we really value the people

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Speaker 2: and the community. Like you know, we're in the heartland

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Speaker 2: of North Melbourne here. We haven't changed, so we've got

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Speaker 2: plenty of history of it. And yeah, the work that

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Speaker 5: It's also what makes a club really special.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, as soon as I arrived here, I like

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Speaker 6: where it is. You know, bit industrial, very.

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Speaker 5: Well, which is very North Melbourne though it's great. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's what the club is. It's right.

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Speaker 2: We go to all the cafes around here and it's

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Speaker 2: very industrial, like the old factories that have been converted

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a lot of hard here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've only only been here in half an hour

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Speaker 5: Well did you say you're from Newcastle.

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Speaker 6: Well, my wife is on from a small town in

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Speaker 6: northwestern South Wales, like three thousand people got a heart there. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: but it's a small town and I guess with a

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Speaker 6: this is a club not as big as your Collingwoods,

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Speaker 6: but you guys have got it all worked out, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, even the way that the building is sort

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Speaker 2: of built in terms of the footy departments not separate

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Speaker 2: from the events team and the membership team and things

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Speaker 5: So we're all all went it together.

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Speaker 6: Which is nice'srugg And what about the afl W team,

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Speaker 6: I mean flag last year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looking this year, Yeah, we're looking pretty strong. We've

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Speaker 2: added some depth to earlist. So I had a one

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Speaker 2: practice match with another one this weekend. So slowly build.

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Speaker 2: We don't want to get two ahead of ourselves. Obviously

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Speaker 2: become the hunted now.

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Speaker 5: So that's it.

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Speaker 2: All the other teams, we've got to try to go

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Speaker 2: to your level and we've.

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Speaker 5: Got to try to go to another level. That's it,

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Speaker 5: counteract it. So now looking forward to getting underway again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah bad.

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Speaker 6: It's a it's a great a club here. I mean

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Speaker 6: you dominated right North Melbourne AFLW dominated.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah yeah for a while. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been pretty successful since we came to the

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Speaker 2: company twenty nineteen and then undefeated season last year. The

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Speaker 2: only blemish was a draw against Geelong. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 2: we've let ourselves down there.

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Speaker 6: Oh you let yourself, You let the club down. I

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Speaker 6: mean seriously amazing, and you've been a massive part of that.

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Speaker 5: Skipper Yeah, yep, yep. Handed the reins over those this year.

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Speaker 5: So Jazz gan do her thing player so she'll be.

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Speaker 2: Able to leave the club less responsibility exactly, less stress,

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Speaker 2: more freedom exactly, don't have to think about the pregame

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Speaker 2: But nah, be good just to just to be a players.

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Speaker 5: It's it's a great club.

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Speaker 6: And do you think you can fit one more fan in?

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Speaker 2: I reckon, we've got room, considering you've got the blue

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Speaker 2: and the white.

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Speaker 5: You've been strategic there with your outseat. I reckon to

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Speaker 5: thank you.

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Speaker 2: Definitely one more fan, and then obviously you've got your

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Speaker 2: family too that we can also add them to the

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Speaker 2: list as well.

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Speaker 5: I would say it sounds good.

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Speaker 6: I've got twins, a lot of twins playing for this club.

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Speaker 3: You're a twins.

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Speaker 5: It's fate, so match made in heaven.

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