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Speaker 1: App Got Anything Dead? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell

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Speaker 1: show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Patsy, You survived Mecca, the Mecca Mecca mega store that

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Speaker 2: opened up over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I saw it on the news. It's like beatle Mania.

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Speaker 3: It really was like Beatlemaniam Thusis. Yes, it was pandemonium.

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Speaker 3: You could not walk. There were people like ants everywhere

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Speaker 3: on three levels of Mecca, the new flagship store in

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Speaker 3: the city. And silly me mother of the Years, said, hey,

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Speaker 3: aord he let's go on the grand opening weekend.

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Speaker 2: There's the worst weekends ago poor Chris as well all

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Speaker 2: of you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, don't be silly. He didn't go inside. He wasn't inside.

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Speaker 3: He went next door and had a drink booze.

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Speaker 1: Look. I said to you, here, we opened up a

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Speaker 1: public store the Mecca, but they make even more money.

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Speaker 3: That would be a good idea. I said to him, listen,

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Speaker 3: you know you don't have to come in. You go

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Speaker 3: and do yourself.

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Speaker 1: The moment you said you don't have to, he was gone.

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Speaker 3: He said, oh you sure, you know, like pretending. Really

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Speaker 3: it's like, no, you go and we'll just we'll ring

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Speaker 3: you when we're done.

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Speaker 1: So he was, how were you in there?

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Speaker 3: Oh you know what? We kept it to about ninety minutes.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, there is such a doing in there.

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Speaker 3: You should honestly, it's not just makeup. They do acupuncture,

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Speaker 3: they do ear piercing, they do there's a florist in there.

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Speaker 3: There's a cafe in there. There's a spa in there.

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Speaker 3: It is incredible spa. Yeah, like you know, you go

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Speaker 3: and get facials and stuff. There's a hairdresser in there.

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Speaker 3: There is They have thought of every single thing.

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Speaker 2: So pats your heir in the news. Then the wheel

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Speaker 2: is spinning again the Melbourne Star.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so today they're going to announce that injected

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Speaker 3: this conglomerate has injected eleven million dollars to get it

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Speaker 3: spinning again. So it has a brillion spun for like

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Speaker 3: four years. Yeah, so we're going to be writing.

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Speaker 1: Remember talking about on the show.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize it was four years ago, but I

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Speaker 2: think it was pre COVID debt. It was it had

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Speaker 2: gone under. I think they were going to pull it down, yes,

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Speaker 2: but it's just been up there doing nothing for four

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Speaker 2: years and now someone has injected millions into it.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And then the plans are to modernize it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Well, they can put a Mecca in there.

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Speaker 2: That's the way to drive more people at Mecca of

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Speaker 2: the weekend than the d scheme day.

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Speaker 1: These game the whole third level was empty. They're like Mecca.

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Speaker 2: Those des aren't they having a facial They're.

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Speaker 3: Like updating me in the pods, you know, like maybe

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Speaker 3: new seating and stuff. But I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: The wheel was great. I don't know if you've been

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Speaker 3: on it, but no, no.

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Speaker 2: Not trusted that Scooby Doo thing. It's hardly hasn't spinning

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Speaker 2: like four years.

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Speaker 1: It's a desperate garner.

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Speaker 2: Really, yea Melbourne we'd see and go, oh we really

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Speaker 2: want to go on them close.

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Speaker 1: It's a strange location.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh so Dockland's nice, but then you've

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Speaker 2: got all that industrial sort of rooftops, so you're mainly

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Speaker 2: seeing one of the worst bits of Melbourne. While then

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Speaker 2: you is pick it up and move it near the

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Speaker 2: mcg and overlooking the Sports precinct.

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Speaker 1: Oh that would be amazing that bit there it ain't

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Speaker 1: a great view.

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Speaker 2: Just I always warned people when you fly into Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: listen and you're coming in to Melbourne, you got that

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Speaker 2: drive in. Don't judge Melbourne on that drive into Melbourne

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Speaker 2: from the airport, because it's an ugly looking city from

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Speaker 2: that that view of it. It is you in Detroit

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Speaker 2: and the airport isn't great as well, that airport, it

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Speaker 2: really isn't.

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