WEBVTT - MINI: Dissapointing Tourist Traps

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<v Speaker 1>Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>So participating has mapped into the studio here for a

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<v Speaker 2>chat after the show Friday.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know why.

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<v Speaker 2>We were just talking about tourist attractions of the world,

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<v Speaker 2>and she said, I've seen Mona Lisa, and we were like,

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<v Speaker 2>my god, Wow, you've seen one of the most famous

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<v Speaker 2>bits of artwork in the world.

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<v Speaker 3>But no, you weren't impressed with the Mona Lisa.

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<v Speaker 1>No, it's tiny, like absolutely minute, and you're forty people deep,

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<v Speaker 1>so it's even smaller because you're further back. And so

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<v Speaker 1>when I went down there and saw it in the loover,

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<v Speaker 1>I just went okay, and I just kept walking.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, but you've traveled all the way to France,

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<v Speaker 4>You've waited in the line to get into the museum.

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<v Speaker 4>Can't you wait till you shuffle to the front. It's

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<v Speaker 4>only another twenty minute, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Because it was so small and so light, insignificant, I

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<v Speaker 1>just thought significant.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't say insignificant about the Mona Lisa. And some

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<v Speaker 2>of those are like fine artworks. Now you need to

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<v Speaker 2>just give it a couple of moments to sort of

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<v Speaker 2>be more of You don't see art.

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<v Speaker 3>You become art. I did not become art, just just

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<v Speaker 3>jogged on by.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I just like just kidd a walking.

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<v Speaker 3>How big would you have wanted it to be? Maybe

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<v Speaker 3>impressive on those magic eye posters?

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe like double its size, because it's like I cannot

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<v Speaker 1>express to anyone if they haven't seen it, how small

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<v Speaker 1>it is.

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<v Speaker 3>Like you, I've seen it. It's you're making out like

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<v Speaker 3>it's a stamp.

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<v Speaker 2>It looks like a step.

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<v Speaker 3>Why it should be so big?

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<v Speaker 5>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I just because I've seen it on you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>internet that many times and you just assume it's an

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<v Speaker 1>old piece of artwork.

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<v Speaker 6>It's it's bigger, but yeah, my good. Is it like

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<v Speaker 6>an a four bit of paper?

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<v Speaker 4>It's like, seriously, it is Just grab a piece of

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<v Speaker 4>printer paper and start the model Lisa.

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<v Speaker 3>Size into the world. Think you're like, please don't be

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<v Speaker 3>like this. What was it like an a four bits

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<v Speaker 3>of in size?

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<v Speaker 6>In comparison, You've nailed it. Yeah size.

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<v Speaker 2>Perhaps you ever seen a choice attraction of the world.

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<v Speaker 2>There's been much hype but then just didn't deliver.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh yeah, it wasn't that imp with the Vegas sign

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<v Speaker 6>when we went to Vegas, the love God to get

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<v Speaker 6>this right. We traveled around America for about a month.

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<v Speaker 6>He brought a black suit from home in the luggage,

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<v Speaker 6>carried it, lugged it all the way because he wanted

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<v Speaker 6>that brat pack photo in front of the vein.

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<v Speaker 3>That's it. That's it. But where it is.

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<v Speaker 6>It's actually in the center median strip on the boulevard there,

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<v Speaker 6>but there's traffic, like three lanes of traffic each side,

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<v Speaker 6>zooming pass. So we took a cab out there because

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<v Speaker 6>we're staying ages away, and it was almost like a stop,

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<v Speaker 6>drop and roll to get out of the cab.

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<v Speaker 4>It was like quick Chris hit by the car.

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<v Speaker 6>So it was just yeah, it wasn't what we worked

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<v Speaker 6>it up to be. It was like, oh, okay, this

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<v Speaker 6>is it.

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<v Speaker 2>Disappointing tourist Attractions of the World, Well, underwhelmed you.

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<v Speaker 3>This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Disappointing Attractions of the World. Andrina the Spanish steps. I'd

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<v Speaker 2>seen so many phones of them with pots, some colored

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<v Speaker 2>flowers on them, lots of festive stuff, shoots around Rome

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<v Speaker 2>in forty two degree heat. Finally found them, just a

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<v Speaker 2>bunch of steps of people sitting on them, having their lunch.

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<v Speaker 2>They could have had any steps anywhere, No pots, no pots.

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<v Speaker 2>David Venice, after walking around in circles from now, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>trying to find a hotel, hadn't argued with my wife

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<v Speaker 2>went to the pub. It was full of men who'd

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<v Speaker 2>done the same thing.

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<v Speaker 3>Denise.

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<v Speaker 2>The White House was so tiny compared to what I

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<v Speaker 2>thought it would be. I didn't know you could just

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<v Speaker 2>go and wander around the White House.

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't, but I don't think it's tiny.

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<v Speaker 2>Jane didn't care much for the Leaning Tower Pisa. Felt

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<v Speaker 2>like we were in suburbia, in someone's backyard. Nine four

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<v Speaker 2>three Disappointing tourist attractions of the World Nikki, good.

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<v Speaker 7>Morning, good morning, disappointing to good morning, disappointing to rose attractions. Yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 7>Egypt and the Sphinx and no, the Great Pyramids.

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<v Speaker 3>Surely not. I'm desperate to go and see that. How

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<v Speaker 3>can they be disappointed?

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<v Speaker 7>Well, we were on honeymoon in Cyprus and thought, oh,

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<v Speaker 7>opportunity to go to Cairo. Let's see the Sphinx and

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<v Speaker 7>you know, the pyramid experience. So we went there, got there,

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<v Speaker 7>spink some pyramid on your left, busy street, McDonald's and

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<v Speaker 7>KFC and Pizza Hut on your right with traffic and

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<v Speaker 7>all want of it. Nothing like the movie sets.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't like a sacred to sight. You can't have that.

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<v Speaker 7>Exactly right, That's what we thought.

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<v Speaker 3>And then we lined up.

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<v Speaker 7>To go into the pyramid because thought maybe it's different

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<v Speaker 7>inside experience and all that sort of stuff. It's really hot.

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<v Speaker 7>We take bottles of water with us. We line up,

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<v Speaker 7>We get to the top of the line and the

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<v Speaker 7>guy at the top of the line takes our bottles

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<v Speaker 7>of water off us and we're like, oh, maybe we're

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<v Speaker 7>not land to take them in. Then he starts drinking

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<v Speaker 7>it in front of us, and we're like, oh, okay,

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<v Speaker 7>that's unusual. We'll just deal with it. We go inside

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<v Speaker 7>the pyramid and it.

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<v Speaker 5>Smells of we and we're like, well, that's where they

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<v Speaker 5>go to the toilet.

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<v Speaker 4>Wait, she think the guy letting people into the entrance,

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<v Speaker 4>he's inside the pyramid.

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<v Speaker 3>Is that what you're Is that what you say, Nikki?

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<v Speaker 3>You reckon? He was beeing in the tombs.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, they were just that's someone job, someone who really

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't like that job anymore.

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<v Speaker 8>No luck.

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<v Speaker 7>So we were just like, seriously, next time we'll go

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<v Speaker 7>to luxere.

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<v Speaker 3>Nikki. Thank you very much you called me. I have

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<v Speaker 3>a good day, no worried you too. Bye bye, Laura,

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<v Speaker 3>good morning, Hi Christian, there are you going. I'm good, Laura.

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<v Speaker 2>I have been a good weeknd thanks to cool on

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<v Speaker 2>the show. So we also disappointing a tourist attraction for you.

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<v Speaker 5>So Christian, we thought we would go to stone Pinge

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<v Speaker 5>because it's something that you just have to do when

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<v Speaker 5>you go there. But there was no way I was

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<v Speaker 5>going to pay for something like that. So I googled

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<v Speaker 5>how to see stone Hinge for free, and a couple

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<v Speaker 5>of articles came up, and one said that it was

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<v Speaker 5>about a three kilometer walk from a place called wood

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<v Speaker 5>Ene and it would take around ninety minutes. And I

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<v Speaker 5>thought to myself, there is no way three kilometer walk's

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<v Speaker 5>going to take ninety minutes. We'll do it way quicker

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<v Speaker 5>than that. Anyway, we didn't. It took way longer than

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<v Speaker 5>ninety minutes, walking through paddiics and avoiding cow dumps and

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<v Speaker 5>all the rest.

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<v Speaker 3>It's it's not a proper footpath.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got a lot of people who won't pay that

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<v Speaker 2>want to do that walk. It's a harder walk it's

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<v Speaker 2>a hard walk.

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<v Speaker 5>Why I didn't know. I just sort of thought of

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<v Speaker 5>our three kilometers that's easy, it's not.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a pilgrimage, yes, And what did you think of

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<v Speaker 2>it when you get there? You see those giants When

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<v Speaker 2>we finally.

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<v Speaker 5>Got there, were a few meters from everyone else that paid,

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<v Speaker 5>and firstly we sort of thought our suckers, but then

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<v Speaker 5>we just looked and we left.

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<v Speaker 4>After five minutes, two hours back the other work.

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<v Speaker 3>And did you find the actual sort of the rocks?

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<v Speaker 3>And underwhelming?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, completely underwhelming. We were honestly there for five minutes.

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<v Speaker 5>We took some photos and were out of there. It

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<v Speaker 5>was it was not worth it.

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<v Speaker 4>I think it's less about the rocks and how they

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<v Speaker 4>got them.

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<v Speaker 2>It's more about the mystery. It's more about the mystery

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<v Speaker 2>how did they get there. They still don't know how

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<v Speaker 2>they got there.

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<v Speaker 5>No, I still don't know how they got there. But

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<v Speaker 5>the walk was really good. In the end, we got

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<v Speaker 5>amazing totos on.

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<v Speaker 3>That was the highlight of the day when he saw

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<v Speaker 3>stone age. Laura, thank you very much. You cool.

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<v Speaker 5>Thanks Christian, Kelly, Christian, hell are you?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm good? Kelly? Have your wealth? So Mona Lisa.

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<v Speaker 8>Oh my God. So I was in my early twenties

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<v Speaker 8>and this was the early nineties, and I was in

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<v Speaker 8>the city of Paris, and I went, right, this is

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<v Speaker 8>the city that has all these attractions, and I kicked

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<v Speaker 8>off my list. I went to the Eiffel Tower, I

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<v Speaker 8>saw the Shamps of Lisa, went to the Active Triumph.

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<v Speaker 8>Then I get to the Louver and I was so

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<v Speaker 8>excited because I saw the glass pyramid and I went, yes,

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<v Speaker 8>I'm going to see the Mona Lisa, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 8>got my map and I went into the louver and

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<v Speaker 8>I just zoomed past all the other whatever was hanging

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<v Speaker 8>on the walls, and I went off to find it,

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<v Speaker 8>to find it, following my map, and I turned a

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<v Speaker 8>corner in the loose and I saw a little crowd

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<v Speaker 8>of people hanging around the painting, and I went, right, well,

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<v Speaker 8>it looks small, but I'm still at the end of

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<v Speaker 8>the corridor. So I walked faster and I went, it's

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<v Speaker 8>not getting any bigger. And I got to the front

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<v Speaker 8>and looked at it and thought, this is a postage stamp.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not. It's not a stamp.

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<v Speaker 8>It must they could have just put a photo copy

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<v Speaker 8>on an A four sheet of staper out on the wall.

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<v Speaker 8>And the funniest thing is I went, I'm standing here, going, okay, well,

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<v Speaker 8>I've got to look cool because I'm in from the

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<v Speaker 8>Mona Lisa and I went, so how long do I

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<v Speaker 8>stand here and admire it? Is it one minute?

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<v Speaker 7>Is it two minutes?

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<v Speaker 5>What's the going rate of standing here?

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<v Speaker 3>It was the worst.

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<v Speaker 8>I was so disappointed.

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<v Speaker 5>And then I took a photo of it. So I've

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<v Speaker 5>still got the photo.

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<v Speaker 3>You can.

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<v Speaker 8>I'd be better off just taking a photocopy from the

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<v Speaker 8>internet and putting in my photo.

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<v Speaker 2>Wel bro Kelly, I've got to ask, what are the

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<v Speaker 2>noises we keep hearing? Come a seconds? Are you're in

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<v Speaker 2>an ice cream van?

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<v Speaker 3>Right?

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<v Speaker 5>That was my story.

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<v Speaker 8>I'm at work.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, I see gotcha? All right, Kenny, thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 3>You killed me no saying a brighter no.

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