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Speaker 2: Got anything good?

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Speaker 3: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Pats morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Alex, Good morning, and good morning Rio, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Can I just please begin today's show with a plea

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Speaker 1: for the next couple of days of leniency. It's the

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Speaker 1: ashes I'm just getting. I just want to put this

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Speaker 1: out there. It's the ashes. It's not gone very well

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Speaker 1: even just hearing any sports news there, Alex ben Stoke's

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Speaker 4: Just try, can you guys?

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Speaker 5: Just Unfortunately I can't offer an olive branch of that card.

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Speaker 1: I would love just treading coming into I'm actually dreading

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Speaker 1: like plus, it's like, obviously you've got pack comings, an

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Speaker 1: amazing leader, he's back, You've got Lion and then the weather.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the weather's perfect for its.

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Speaker 1: So hot thirty five degrees thirty built for those temperatures. No,

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Speaker 1: those and it's another example of cheating Australias. If it's

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Speaker 1: The England team should be allowed to play under cabanas.

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Speaker 5: I think they should have to have sunscreen breaks. I

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Speaker 1: Stokes in heat, in heat, I mean that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, can't wait for tomorrow's show. Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I cannot wait.

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Speaker 1: But what happens. So if it goes well today.

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Speaker 5: You actually do normally, you start well, your day ones

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Speaker 1: It's more of a one day today than for Ingden.

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Speaker 1: Now we did this yesterday and I think it's really

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Speaker 4: It's phenomenal, and it's people all over the world.

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Speaker 6: one of your finest acts of bravery I've known God

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Speaker 1: about coming incident. One thing we're doing a part two

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Speaker 1: in relationship the panther story. There are several panthers of Sydney.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing with one. It's a whole gang of them.

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Speaker 1: Apparently one of them came to Sydney on an American

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Speaker 4: Why did they have a panther mascot Africa?

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Speaker 1: The other panther was set free from a private zoo.

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Speaker 5: Well, people are so confident about these legend historical facts.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And Christian, I do win a billboard today? Yes

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Speaker 1: we are. We have access to these big billboards all

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Speaker 1: want to say to Sydney Live this morning, Christian, I'm Jasmine. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: thousands of year to twelve students get their results, the

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Speaker 1: HSC results tomorrow. Could we do a billboard that says,

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Speaker 1: proud of you HRC class of twenty twenty five. Your

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Speaker 1: mark doesn't define your worth or future. You've a rey

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Speaker 1: achieved so much from all your teachers, Jasmine. That is

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Speaker 1: tell us that they are ills in Centennial Park that

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Speaker 1: go down through the sewers to New Caledonia. Good, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is all right. So what have you got Weird

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Speaker 1: and Wonderful Guide to Sydney? Or if you want to

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Speaker 1: say something on the billboards today, your message will go

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Speaker 1: live by ten o'clock thirteen fifty five, twenty two, or

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Speaker 1: you can text four seven five three one oh four three.

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Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Put your message on a billboard live to Sydney today.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you want to say? Oh, four seven five three

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Speaker 1: one oh four three. And have you got something that

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Speaker 1: I need to know about the real Sydney from my

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Speaker 1: Weird and Wonderful Guide to Sydney Rio, you've got something else?

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Speaker 4: Yes, Siega World Now.

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Speaker 5: Anyone listening in Sydney now has probably never heard those words.

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Speaker 5: In about twenty years, it was a short lived theme

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Speaker 5: park in the nineties.

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Speaker 4: It was built as this huge new thing.

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Speaker 1: So you are you to it like son at the

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Speaker 1: Hedgehold ride.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well that that would be. That was the initials

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Speaker 4: I was sold.

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Speaker 5: It was sold in this Australia's Interactive Disneyland. It was

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Speaker 5: this futuristic theme park right in Darling harborst so in

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Speaker 5: prime position.

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Speaker 4: It only lasted five years.

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Speaker 5: It went from nin ninety four to two thousand or

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Speaker 5: six years, I guess. And the reason was and I

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Speaker 5: went there twice. The riots were terrible.

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Speaker 4: It was build as this like futuristic theme fuck.

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Speaker 1: So no magic King I wanted it. There's anyone else

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Speaker 1: listening right now? That also went there. Yes, I was

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Speaker 1: underwhelmed by the Sonic ride or whatever it was.

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Speaker 5: So some of the rides, but it didn't make sense

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Speaker 5: like thematically, it was so confused. There would be like

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Speaker 5: a Sonic the Hedgehog ride. Then there was like a

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Speaker 5: submarine simulator, one of those four D movies where they

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Speaker 5: like spray water in your phone rain. But the crowning

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Speaker 5: jewel of weird rides at Siaga World was the Michael

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Speaker 5: Jackson pilot simulator.

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Speaker 4: Excuse me, where it was eight people.

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Speaker 5: You'd sit in this like like a plane simulator, like

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Speaker 5: a flight simulator and you were doing a pilot training course.

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Speaker 5: And for reasons that and with Michael Jackson, the reasons

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Speaker 5: that I never explained ever. Michael Jackson, like the actual

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Speaker 5: Michael Jackson, like holograph of him is the pilot that's

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Speaker 5: terrifying it.

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Speaker 4: Why is it he's going to to do with planes?

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Speaker 4: Never explained. I think he must have just got touch

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Speaker 4: in his joystick.

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Speaker 8: That's like a fevered dream.

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Speaker 1: You just recounted that it was so weird, and Lee's

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Speaker 1: called us today you went to Saga World as Rio

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Speaker 1: just made this up?

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Speaker 4: No, I promise it's really if you know, you know, isn't.

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Speaker 1: That scream nineties? Anyone else? Remember the Hollywood burger chain

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Speaker 1: Planet Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: Did? They might think they might have had one here

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Speaker 4: in London.

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Speaker 1: It was marketed as you might see Sylvester Stallone or

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Speaker 1: Arnie chomping burgers and chips. Have you seen those guys

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Speaker 1: back and they were ripped. They're not having to quarter

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Speaker 1: pounders in over priced restaurants. Alex, what's another one for

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Speaker 1: our weird and wonderful guy into Sydney.

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Speaker 4: Well, I got a.

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Speaker 7: Text from my wife Bonnie saying that there are guard

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Speaker 7: dogs at the opera house, and I went, what do

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Speaker 7: you mean guard dogs at the opera house? Well, she said,

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Speaker 7: the dogs are the here to scare away the seagulls.

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Speaker 8: What sort of dogs, Well, that's what I'm keeping.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be a sausage dog, is it, little man? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: shepherd dogs. No, Doberman's Dobermans. I would suggest Dobermans. That

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Speaker 1: would a good idea. Wolves.

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Speaker 4: Why not if they have wolves at the opera house.

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Speaker 1: The opera should have something wolves, something like that.

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Speaker 4: If you die wolves to.

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Speaker 1: Keep Charles has got the bee features, you know, to

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Speaker 1: defend the pallace. The opera should have something like wolves.

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Speaker 6: We have a pitbull for Australia.

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Speaker 8: What about blue cattle dogs? That's very.

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Speaker 1: You should have kelpies the most Australia. There has to

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Speaker 1: be roaming kelpiece all around it. Reading. Are they on

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Speaker 1: the Are they on the roof? Apparently? Because that's what

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Speaker 1: sloped man.

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Speaker 7: They're on the stairs and they're sort of.

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Speaker 1: Talking, barking away the seagulls. Why did you went on

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Speaker 1: the stairs? Bunny's ad on the roof and that's why

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Speaker 1: they're up there pooping on it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: She's adamant that there are seagull dogs at the Opera House.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like a mom who hasn't had enough sleep.

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Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure you and real I think you're

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Speaker 1: winding me up.

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Speaker 8: She's an home three small children in this week, so.

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Speaker 1: Can't get over the the Michael Jackson flight simulators. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna have to google this. There's any remaining evidence of

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Speaker 1: this seagull? All right, weird and wonderful guy into Sydney.

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Speaker 1: What can you add? What do I need to know?

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Speaker 1: What can you show?

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell Show Gone Podcast.

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Speaker 1: What have you got from my weird and wonderful guy

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Speaker 1: to Sydney? What do I need to know? Christian? Good morning.

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Speaker 1: The Sydney Opera House was originally a major Sydney tram shed.

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Speaker 1: Is that true?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I did not know that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Christian. If you search Google Maps

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Speaker 1: for every Red Rooster store in Sydney, it draws a

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Speaker 1: neat red line that divides East and West Sydney. Economists

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Speaker 1: actually use this tool and they know it as the

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Speaker 1: Red Rooster line to study socio economic inequality. If you're

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Speaker 1: east of the line, you're in the posh part town.

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Speaker 4: There's no red roosters on the east side of towns.

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Speaker 1: It's true, yes, yeah, too good for rooster Australia. He's

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Speaker 1: got the Prime Minister in half an hour, just speak

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Speaker 1: to him about it.

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Speaker 7: And he demanded the regulatan and that's the only risters

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Speaker 7: you'll finding me.

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Speaker 1: Is and then Maddie Alex was just saying how his

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Speaker 1: wife said that they have guard dogs guarding Sydney Opera

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Speaker 1: House from seagulls. One thing I'm really learning about Sydney

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Speaker 1: is you've got a major seagull problem. All right, it's

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Speaker 1: it's a pandemic, I would say, smil link to this

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Speaker 1: website saying it's true. There's a company set up by

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Speaker 1: an English guy, Christian. It's called Mad Dogs and the

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Speaker 1: Englishman Seagull Patrol. What a proud boast. This is the

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Speaker 1: leader in dog based seagull To Terrence, there's a photo

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Speaker 1: that is now my favorite photo of a Border Collie

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Speaker 1: barking at a seagull as it's flying away.

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Speaker 5: Get out of here, right up the guts.

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Speaker 4: Not on my watch. It's a bit like the old

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Speaker 4: lady who swallowed a fly.

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Speaker 5: But now we've got all these dogs roaming around our

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Speaker 5: brouse yes.

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Speaker 1: Seagulls can be a real nuisance I'm reading from the website,

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Speaker 1: from stealing food at outdoor cafes, creating health housards with

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Speaker 1: their droppings. We offer an effective and humane solution to

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Speaker 1: manage these pesty birds using our hardly trained border collies

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Speaker 1: and kelpies. We use the dogs and natural herding in

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Speaker 1: sincetant cotage burst couch bursts to leave the area.

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Speaker 4: Come on, get out of here.

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Speaker 1: The presence of the dog creates a predator effect teaching

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Speaker 1: the seagulls, and when the dogs are there, food is

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Speaker 1: off libds. This is a powerful long term solution and

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Speaker 1: the dogs find the boss seagull. Did we know that

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Speaker 1: there's a like a final boss seagull? And the dogs

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Speaker 1: go not you mate, You're not the boss. You're a

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Speaker 1: fake boss. You ain't nothing. You're like the VP your pence.

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Speaker 4: I did know there was a hierarchy.

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Speaker 1: We are finding out so much with this weird and

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Speaker 1: guy to see me. I need to get this. Apparently

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Speaker 1: they can. They're happy to to come on TV and

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Speaker 1: radio shows. I know we've got the Prime Minister today.

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Speaker 1: How do we go bigger Thursday? We get one of

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Speaker 1: these dogs on for an interview.

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Speaker 4: But do we bump albow and then yes.

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Speaker 1: Just put in abody house your mumps. It's a dog

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Speaker 1: that can find the final boss. Get the Kelpie, get

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Speaker 1: the always Saying Showbiz book the Kelpie. John's on the

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Speaker 1: line also has experienced Saga World. Yes, John, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Morning John Morning.

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Speaker 9: Listening to you in the afternoons. I'm hoping you can

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Speaker 9: do him better on the morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Well, it's it's it's an extraordinary

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Speaker 1: week to be here launching the show in Sydney. But

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Speaker 1: I really hope we're helping and it's lovely being able

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Speaker 1: to chat to people and hopefully offer some comfort and

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Speaker 1: support right now and nonsense about dogs and Saga World.

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Speaker 1: We need all of that in the world right now,

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Speaker 1: all of that. So you you heard really real talking

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Speaker 1: about Saga World. Did you go?

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Speaker 9: I went to the opening, you witnessed history.

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Speaker 1: It's help there with the moon landing, John, John, what

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Speaker 1: was it like?

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Speaker 9: It was very underwhelming?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but that adds up the reason.

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Speaker 9: Why the only reason why we hanged around was because

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Speaker 9: they've given away free stuff.

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Speaker 5: Of course, not a sustainable business model, though. If your

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Speaker 5: attractions are underwhelming, and you've got to keep people there

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Speaker 5: by giving stuff away.

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Speaker 1: This radio station, it's been running on it for years.

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Speaker 9: And the cues and that were many people showed up.

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Speaker 9: The cues were sober. You had to wait about half

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Speaker 9: an hour at least to get onto a ride, and.

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Speaker 4: They weren't very good rides.

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Speaker 1: No, John, do you remember this Michael Jackson flight simulator.

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Speaker 9: I've never got a chance to get onto it because

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Speaker 9: the cues were that we get on.

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Speaker 1: All right, John, thank you very much for giving us

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Speaker 1: a cool.

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Speaker 9: Mate on one last The only saving grace was the

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Speaker 9: arcade games.

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Speaker 5: There were a lot of arcade I remember playing this

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Speaker 5: pokey kids.

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Speaker 1: You can't run a theme.

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Speaker 9: Park off that why it was, it was worth it.

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Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, I remember they had a hockey.

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Speaker 5: That's the I spent a lot of time doing a

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Speaker 5: hockey to impress Australians.

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Speaker 1: We've got air hockey.

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Speaker 4: It's hockey worse right now.

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Speaker 1: Now. I know how we're going to dominate the ratings

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Speaker 1: next year, giving away air hockey table our first week

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Speaker 1: when we're back January nineteenth, Air Hockey's.

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell show, go on podcast.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning Danuel Work Christian one of the best things

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Speaker 1: since Sydney. It is the train seats can flip to

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Speaker 1: face away you're traveling. Yeah, oh travel sickness in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that.

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Speaker 4: Yes, they're brilliant.

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Speaker 5: And you can also turn a three seater into a

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Speaker 5: six seater if you've got a bigger group.

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Speaker 1: If only Saga World to try that out in the

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Speaker 1: air hockey tables, then it would have had some the

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Speaker 1: rival Disneyland of the Magic Kingdom. All right, this is

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Speaker 1: a bound new thing we're going to be doing with

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Speaker 1: you guys. Every week. We call it what are the Odds?

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Speaker 1: What are the Oddsers? You are your stories? People have

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Speaker 1: such incredible stories of coincidence and chance. We do every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday it's called what are the Odds? This is one

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Speaker 1: of our all time Hall of Fame with calls from Cheryl.

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Speaker 10: My name is Cheryl, and I was married to men

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Speaker 10: called Hunt, and I worked with a Hunt who was

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Speaker 10: married to a Cheryl. One Christmas, we gave each other

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Speaker 10: a Christmas card which was exactly the same card and

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Speaker 10: read to Cheryl and hands from Hunts and Cheryl.

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Speaker 1: It still gets me every time. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: into it.

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Speaker 3: I believe it or not.

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Speaker 11: You gotta be justhing me like where you with Ryl

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Speaker 11: who married a Hun?

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Speaker 4: Who was with Cheryl who married a Hunt as well?

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Speaker 1: All right, lines are Repper? Now your stories of coincidence

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Speaker 1: and chance for What are the odds? Thirteen fifty five,

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Speaker 1: twenty two.

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Speaker 12: So I was going to barbers a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 12: To me, he goes, oh, what's your name? And I said, oh,

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Speaker 12: it's Paul. There was four other people in there, and

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Speaker 12: the guy next to me he goes, oh, my name's Paul.

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Speaker 12: The barber says, my name's Paul, and the other guy says, oh,

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Speaker 12: my name's Paul.

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Speaker 13: So I thought, well, the odds.

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Speaker 12: So I took a phograph four Pauls and there was

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Speaker 12: only four people in the barbers and we're all called Paul.

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Speaker 10: What are the odds that you on a boat in

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Speaker 10: the Nile and you run into your husband's best friend,

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Speaker 10: Nanny who was from Lebanon.

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Speaker 13: Preparing my breakfast just the other day, I cracked open

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Speaker 13: the egg and had two yolks inside the one egg.

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Speaker 13: And then I went on to have a banana and

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Speaker 13: peeled the banana and there were two bananas inside the

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Speaker 13: one pile.

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Speaker 1: Champagne Radio we can all agree. All right, lines are open.

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Speaker 1: Now what are your story? Do we need that one end?

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Speaker 1: He said? It off for seat. How's some more of

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Speaker 1: that protein, sir thirteen fifty five twenty two. Your stories

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Speaker 1: of coincidence and chance brio? You have one?

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Speaker 5: Yes, let me take you back to two thousand and two.

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Speaker 5: We were on a family holiday in Coffs Harbor. Family

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Speaker 5: was playing tennis. I got bored.

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Speaker 4: I wandered off.

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Speaker 5: It was quite dark by the end, and I was very,

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Speaker 5: very lost as a ten year old boy, so I

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Speaker 5: just started screaming. I was like, I'm lost, Like at

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Speaker 5: someone held me. There was no one around as a highway. Eventually,

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Speaker 5: this nice stranger comes out ask me.

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Speaker 4: Where I'm staying. I I'm staying here, and he walks

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Speaker 4: me back home.

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Speaker 5: All's well, that ends well. Two years later, we're in Bali.

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Speaker 5: We're out in the markets. You know, they're crazy, they're busy.

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Speaker 5: I wander off again and then again, hopelessly lost. I'm

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Speaker 5: looking around. I was like, oh, looking for someone that

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Speaker 5: looked vaguely Australian. Find A guy's like, oh, can you

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Speaker 5: please take you back to the club men? I'm so lost,

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Speaker 5: hecaues yeah, of course I'll take you back. He takes

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Speaker 5: me back, take you back to my family, knocks on

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Speaker 5: their door, and before he leaves, he goes, do I

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Speaker 5: know you guys?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't think so, like tells his name, tells

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Speaker 4: him our name. No, I don't know. Yes, well you

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Speaker 4: were you in Coffs Harbor a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: It's not the same guy.

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Speaker 4: It was the same guy that's.

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Speaker 5: Saved say again in Bali.

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Speaker 4: What he was working giving me goosebu it's crazy.

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Speaker 5: He was training acrobats at the Club med in Coffs

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Speaker 5: Harbor and then at the Club med in Balwin.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's an extraordinary story. Now we've got

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Speaker 1: even more extorting a training acrobat.

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Speaker 5: Yes, so he would go around to all the different

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Speaker 5: I guess club meds.

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Speaker 4: So he found me twice.

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Speaker 1: Actually incredible.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what a story?

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Speaker 1: All right? What have you got? Lines are up and

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Speaker 1: now thirteen fifty five twenty two your stories of coincidence

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Speaker 1: and chance would take them next.

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Speaker 3: The Christian o'connall show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Look me stories right now? Coincidence and chances. You're going

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Speaker 1: to be doing this every Wednesday with you was called

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Speaker 1: what are the Odds? Thirteen fifty five, twenty two. Emma,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 14: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Pleasure all right, Emma, So you've got a story of

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Speaker 1: coincidence and chance. What's your story, mate?

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Speaker 14: I do a very embarrassing one.

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Speaker 9: Look.

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Speaker 14: A number of years ago, I was driving to Taronga

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Speaker 14: Zoo and stucking horendous traffic. So obviously all the cars stopped,

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Speaker 14: and there was a car in front that had those

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Speaker 14: seats where people faced you, and a bunch of yes

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Speaker 14: and a bunch of kids in there. So I thought,

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Speaker 14: I'll entertain them. I'll pull faces at them and make

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Speaker 14: a complete full of myself, which I did solidly for

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Speaker 14: about five minutes, and then the day progressed. I then

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Speaker 14: started a new job in January, and as a teacher,

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Speaker 14: primary school teacher, and I was introducing myself to my

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Speaker 14: new class thinking I was very professional, and this little

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Speaker 14: boy putting you can see where this.

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Speaker 15: Is going to go.

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Speaker 14: This little boy put his hand up and went, I

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Speaker 14: know you missed. You were in the car behind me

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Speaker 14: making all these faces.

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Speaker 1: What a great way to meet your new classmates. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 14: You could only get better from there at least.

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Speaker 1: Emma, thank you very much the story and have a

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Speaker 1: lovely Christmas you too, Karen. Welcome to the show. Hello Karen, Hi,

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Speaker 1: Hello mate, welcome to show. Thanks you giving us a call.

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Speaker 1: What's your story?

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Speaker 15: My story is back in ninety nine, my wife and

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Speaker 15: I were shopping at I at Home Bosh. Now during

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Speaker 15: that period, we were with our eight and a month

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Speaker 15: old daughter, Sophie, and my wife said, aren't your grandparents

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Speaker 15: over at Rookwood Cemetery? So I said, yeah, that's where

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Speaker 15: they rested. So we went over to Rookwood and we

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Speaker 15: were up there searching around, trying to follow their plaques

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Speaker 15: in the garden. And as you know, there are thousands

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Speaker 15: of parks up there, and we were there looking for

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Speaker 15: a good forty five minute. I couldn't find them, and

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Speaker 15: my daughter was just picking up pedals off the ground,

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Speaker 15: and we got fed up with looking, so I said

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Speaker 15: let's go. She went over and went to pick Sophie up,

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Speaker 15: and she was sitting there and she'd been placing these

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Speaker 15: petals along the along the fence line. And I looked

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Speaker 15: down and that's where Grandma and Grandpa were.

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Speaker 8: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Was that incredible? Something letter there?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, And the other thing that made us freak out

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Speaker 15: was We looked next to Grandma and Grandpa and there

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Speaker 15: was a plaque with a lady's named Sophie's.

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Speaker 5: Rookwood's the biggest cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere, so it's massive.

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Speaker 4: So the odds are actually very very very.

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Speaker 1: Very strange fleas the Southern Hemisphere. That's amazing is that

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Speaker 1: advertisement hoarding outside when you walk here, and that's a

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Speaker 1: beautiful story, really well told. Thank you very much for sharing.

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Speaker 1: I have a lovely Christmas. Take care, Thank you all right,

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Speaker 1: new support coming up next is that advertisement hoarding outside.

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Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Prime Minister live on the line now,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Prime Minister, good morning, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for joining us. I first of all, I

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Speaker 1: thought it'd be really nice if you can offer a

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Speaker 1: message to us. So it's still very shook up from

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Speaker 1: the events on Sunday. What words of hope and support

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Speaker 1: can you offer us right now, Prime Minister.

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Speaker 2: That Australia will come through this. We are a brave

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Speaker 2: country and this is the darkest of times for an

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Speaker 2: any Semitic terrorist attack to occur on a Hanikah celebration.

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Speaker 2: Hanikah celebrates the festival Light, the victoria of a light

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Speaker 2: over darkness and we will come through this, will come

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Speaker 2: through it together with national unity. And my heart goes

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Speaker 2: out to the community today and every day, but today

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Speaker 2: particularly will be a difficult day with the first funerals underway.

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Speaker 1: And how do we stick together right now as a community?

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Speaker 1: Already you're seeing these incredible scenes of people queuing for

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Speaker 1: hours to donate lar. People want to help, people wanted

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Speaker 1: to support each other. We want to feel closer to

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Speaker 1: each other right now, don't we?

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Speaker 2: We do? And last night the Government General hosted an

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Speaker 2: event at Admiralty House and there was lots of hugging

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Speaker 2: and just warm embraces with leaders of the Jewish community,

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Speaker 2: with people across the political spectrum who came together last night.

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Speaker 2: And it is a difficult period, but Australs are reaching out.

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Speaker 2: Australians are lighting candles in their front windows as a

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Speaker 2: symbol of Harniker and a symbol of the victory of light.

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Speaker 2: Australians are queuing in their tens of thousands to donate

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Speaker 2: blood in order to assist people. And I think people

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Speaker 2: are engaging with each other about the values that matter.

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Speaker 2: What terrorists seek to do is to pit Australian against

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Speaker 2: Australian and promote division in the world. And this is

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Speaker 2: an Isis inspired attack that cannot be allowed to succeed.

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Speaker 2: And the way that we hurt that attack is by

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Speaker 2: uniting is coming together as Australians and providing support, particularly

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Speaker 2: for the Jewish community at this difficult time.

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Speaker 1: Talk about the darkness and the light and the meaning

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Speaker 1: for Hanniker as well. The real light that also came

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Speaker 1: on Sunday was incredible. I don't think any of us

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Speaker 1: Australian or the air armed and I think you actually

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Speaker 1: went and saw him and visited him. How is he?

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Speaker 1: Everyone wants to know how is he?

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Speaker 2: I did see him yesterday in hospital. He's being operated

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Speaker 2: on today. It's quite an extensive operation. He had substantial wounds,

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Speaker 2: but was in a very upbeat mood. He's a very

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Speaker 2: humble man. His parents are visiting him at the moment

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Speaker 2: and they were very proud, quite rightly of their son.

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Speaker 2: This is someone who ran towards danger, put himself at risk,

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Speaker 2: and we know that there were a number of heroes

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Speaker 2: as well. On Sunday Day. He Armored is someone who

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Speaker 2: I think shows the best of the Australian character. He

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Speaker 2: didn't think of himself, he thought of others and as

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Speaker 2: a direct result of his intervention, lives were saved.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an incredible, incredible story and you're right, he

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Speaker 1: embodies the best of us. That's Australia, that's Australian values,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It certainly is. And this is someone who was with

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Speaker 2: friends heading down to Bondo Beach on a Sunday afternoon

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Speaker 2: to get a cup of coffee was what he wanted

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Speaker 2: to do. He came across the festival that was taking

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Speaker 2: very open celebration of joy and so he was aware

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Speaker 2: that of the festival taking place. And then shots started

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Speaker 2: to ring out and mister l Armored intervened in a

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Speaker 2: way that made an enormous difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you must be aware of this, go

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Speaker 1: fund me, Paige. I think it's up to two and

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Speaker 1: a half million dollars, not just from Australians once they

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Speaker 1: support him from all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's got a small business that is currently not

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Speaker 2: able to operate because he's in hospital and that will

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Speaker 2: certainly help, but indeed not just armored but people who

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Speaker 2: lost their lives. There are heroic stories in today's news

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Speaker 2: Boris and Sophie German, a married couple in their sixties

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Speaker 2: who tried to take down one of the governments right

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Speaker 2: at the very beginning of the attack before they were murdered.

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Speaker 2: Ruben Morrison who threw bricks at the government heading towards

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Speaker 2: danger before he was murdered. These heroes, and I think

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Speaker 2: at a time when you look at the events of

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Speaker 2: about what the true Australian character is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beautifully said, and I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: listening right now as well, a Prime minister is there

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Speaker 1: is obviously a need for unity as well. But are

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Speaker 1: there gaps in the gun laws? We're in this situation

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Speaker 1: where a guy living in the inner suburbs, what does

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Speaker 1: he need a license for to have six guns? Are

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Speaker 1: there gaps in the laws that need to change?

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Speaker 2: Well, clearly in my view there are a need for tightening.

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Speaker 2: These gun laws were introduced, of course in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: six in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre. If

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Speaker 2: we need to do anything to tighten them up state

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Speaker 2: and territory governments. So I brought together in order to

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Speaker 2: make sure we do just that.

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Speaker 1: Great, that's good to hear that, actually, and I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people as well. You know, this time

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Speaker 1: of year, obviously Hanakh is still going on. There are

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Speaker 1: going to be festivals, are going to be public gatherings,

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Speaker 1: there's summertime, some of the holidays are coming up soon,

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Speaker 1: you know. I'm looking out over the Harbor Bridge, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about the fireworks on New Year's Eve?

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Speaker 1: Can people feel safe gathering in public?

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Speaker 2: Look, we need to make sure that fear doesn't win

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Speaker 2: here and that people continue to conduct their lives and

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Speaker 2: express their sense of community. These are there is an

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Speaker 2: increasingly dangerous world that we live in, tragically, but we

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Speaker 2: can't allow fear to win. That's what that's what the

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Speaker 2: terrorists seek. And know the actions of Australians I don't

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Speaker 2: think will be cowered by what has occurred. You know,

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Speaker 2: these people evil, they were cowards and their actions were

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Speaker 2: an atrocity.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for speaking us today. I can

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Speaker 1: tell that actually, you know, in a job like yours,

903
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Speaker 1: you deal with some situations, difficult situations, horrific situations. But

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Speaker 1: I get the feeling talking to you today, Prime Minister,

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Speaker 1: even you're struggling with this and also the stuff that

906
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Speaker 1: you would have been across the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: It must be heavy for you as well on a

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Speaker 1: personal level. And I know you're stoic and I thought

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Speaker 1: you spoke very very well Monday. And this is a

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Speaker 1: time for leaders in all shapes and forms to step up,

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Speaker 1: not just elected ones like yourself, but in the community

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Speaker 1: as well, for us all to step up and be

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Speaker 1: leaders as well. But this must be hard for you,

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Speaker 1: as the Prime minister this country to just be yeah,

915
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Speaker 1: to be around for it this week and through it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Christian, But that's my responsibility. My thoughts are

917
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Speaker 2: really with those grieving their loved ones is my priority.

918
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Speaker 2: They are doing it tough. I've been to homes of

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Speaker 2: people in the last couple of days as well as

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Speaker 2: having meetings as well, and my thoughts are with them today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beautifully said, It's been the reaction of what's happened

922
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Speaker 1: since Sunday night has been nothing but humbling. It actually

923
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Speaker 1: reminds us that there are way more good people in

924
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Speaker 1: the world than evil, and it's an aberration that happened

925
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Speaker 1: on Sunday night. It's not the norm here in Australia,

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Speaker 1: and all these everyday heroes that acted that took action.

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Speaker 1: You know, I can't even imagine what it's like to

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Speaker 1: be in a situation like that. None of us know

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Speaker 1: how we would really handle it. But don't you think

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Speaker 1: it's also it's an amazing place full of amazing people

931
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Speaker 1: and kind hearted people. And we saw that Sunday, We've

932
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Speaker 1: seen it over the last couple of days, and we

933
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Speaker 1: will see it over the next couple of days as well.

934
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Speaker 1: Australia will I don't want to say bounce back because

935
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Speaker 1: it's morning right now. We're all feeling this, but there's

936
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Speaker 1: also an air of defiance and actually acts like Sunday night,

937
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Speaker 1: they don't change anything. They don't get to take our

938
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Speaker 1: joy from us.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, thank you very much, Christian, take.

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Speaker 1: Care, promise to thank you for bringing up some time

941
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Speaker 1: and speaking to the show today, and have a happy Christmas.

942
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Speaker 3: Thank you. The Christian O'Connell Show Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Well, one thing I've really come to love since moving

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Speaker 1: to Australia is this concept of mateship, and I think

945
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Speaker 1: we've seen that this week. We have. That's incredible thing

946
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Speaker 1: and you'll see it again today as well. You know,

947
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Speaker 1: at start of the show out this incredible email by

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Speaker 1: one of you, lovely Matt, beautifully written email. I really

949
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Speaker 1: hope Brad is okay that we put up on the

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Speaker 1: website because I think people will get something from reading it.

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Speaker 1: I did when it came in yesterday night, Brad Stokes Christian. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: my wife and I went to the Paramatter Blood Bank

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Speaker 1: to donat. When we arrived, the queue is huge. It

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Speaker 1: took us an hour and a half just to get

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Speaker 1: to the reception desk. In the queue, almost every nationality

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Speaker 1: and occupation was represented. Arabic, Indian, Korean, Aussie trades, young

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Speaker 1: girls and activewear executives, Folks from every walk of life

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Speaker 1: all there together. A sure elderly couple, a husband proudly

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Speaker 1: wearing in his yamaka, been unable to give blood at Bondai,

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Speaker 1: so they drove all the way to wait and queue again.

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Speaker 1: And my wife had a young Chinese dad behind her,

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Speaker 1: also waiting, And as we all slowly shuffled up the

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Speaker 1: stairs one by one, there was this case of oneness

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Speaker 1: and camaraderie developed amongst us. The man in front of

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Speaker 1: me had taken some of work to Donat was wearing

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Speaker 1: an indigenous printed sloppy joe over his work clothes, which

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Speaker 1: were very clearly that of a police officer asked him

968
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Speaker 1: how he was traveling, especially with what they've been through

969
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Speaker 1: this week, and he quietly said, the rabbi that died

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Speaker 1: was our chaplain after what an incredible man. It just humbles,

971
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Speaker 1: didn't it. After waiting in the queue, the officer was

972
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Speaker 1: told he'd have to come back tomorrow at seven am.

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Speaker 1: Hey replied, no problem, see them. This to me, Christian

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Speaker 1: epitomized not just how many from so many different cardings

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Speaker 1: were affected by the events of Sunday, but how we

976
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Speaker 1: can all stand together and do what we can to help,

977
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Speaker 1: but also that the palpable grief that was visible in

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Speaker 1: the waiting queue, but everyone waiting patiently to look at this,

979
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Speaker 1: everyone waiting patiently to be part of the solution, not

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Speaker 1: the problem. This guy is yeah, and his final line

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Speaker 1: Australia is a wonderful country. I am proud to be

982
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Speaker 1: an Australian. Brad. Thank you very much. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: after these ads.

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Speaker 3: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Ice House Great Southern Land A fifty three. Christian O'Connell's

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Speaker 1: show on Gold Morning to Julie Christian, I was in

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Speaker 1: tears listening to True Blue, Thank you for playing that.

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Speaker 1: I think the billboard today should say, hey, true Blue

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Speaker 1: love that. Oh Judy, what a moving idea. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: to that. Every day this week we've got these billboards,

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Speaker 1: you know, the billboards you see them all over town,

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Speaker 1: all on there, and we can change them at a

993
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Speaker 1: moment's notice and put whatever message you want on them

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Speaker 1: to say to the people of Sydney. And obviously when

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Speaker 1: we were thinking about this last week, it was a

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Speaker 1: different world. So actually I think for the rest of

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Speaker 1: this week. You know, normally when we've done this before

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Speaker 1: giving away billboards, people put really funny and different things on.

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Speaker 1: That's just I don't think it's just it's just not

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Speaker 1: how we're feeling this week, and just seeing that message

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Speaker 1: from Julian. Then the first one we had Monday when

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Speaker 1: listeners Shane Cording on our first show with you guys

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Speaker 1: and said, why don't you just say good on your Ahmed.

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Speaker 1: We're going to have that up all week. I think

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Speaker 1: the billboards this week should only be messages of support

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Speaker 1: for Sydney. I think they should only be for that.

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Speaker 1: So we do them tomorrow and we do them Friday

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Speaker 1: as well. But today I think, Judy, that is incredible. Hey,

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Speaker 1: true Blue is just what we need to be reminded of.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the anthem of this week. So that's

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Speaker 1: a lovely idea. We are back tomorrow. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much all the stories of the calls, and thank you

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Speaker 1: to Andrew who actually dropped off a Bakewell tart. You know,

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Speaker 1: we talk about acts of kindness. That's a big one

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Speaker 1: for me. Six o'clock Smaller and this guy Andrew turns

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Speaker 1: up at this radio station with a Bakewell tart is

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Speaker 1: made overnight. So I'm going to have someone with the

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Speaker 1: team and a cup of tea after the show today,

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Speaker 1: before the ashes begins, and then my day. I'm afraid

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Speaker 1: we'll take a very different turn.

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