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Speaker 3: Got anything good? Hey? This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Tits of today's show.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to call it now because this is not

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Speaker 2: going to be a normal show from us.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: Is called a courtesy call because we must just get

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Speaker 2: into this now. Often on the radio shows they just start,

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Speaker 2: we start talking in and then you discover what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about midway through the break. I'm now going to

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Speaker 2: tell you what we're talking about. We're talking about Jack

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Speaker 2: Post leaving the show this ride.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what to say.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing that's very clear.

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Speaker 2: So Jack and I met up yesterday in this radio studio,

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Speaker 2: and I wasn't sure what kind of version of you

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Speaker 2: I was going to see. I was really speechless to

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Speaker 2: see a ten year younger version of Jack actually held

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Speaker 2: in Patsy in his eyes. You had baby eyes, you

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Speaker 2: know when we're born and you're seeing Gordon like this,

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Speaker 2: and I saw my daughters like this. They're just pure

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Speaker 2: light and loving energy. They're like luminous. That's why I

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Speaker 2: saw that you had had baby eyes looked so happy.

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Speaker 4: I think somewhere in your eyes I saw a bit

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Speaker 4: of jealousy as well.

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Speaker 2: I was frightened, like, is this what it looks like

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Speaker 2: to leave the compound? It was like Jack mccame Jack dufrain. No,

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Speaker 2: I'm Brooks.

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Speaker 1: I must never leave.

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Speaker 3: I'm Brooks forever. Neither of you are Brooks. You could

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Speaker 3: both last on the outside.

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Speaker 2: You're leaving the ship. This has been a really intense

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Speaker 2: couple of days. I asked Jack to take Thursday and

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Speaker 2: Friday off to think about it. He told me he

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Speaker 2: didn't need that time. He was still leaving, which is

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Speaker 2: he literally called me out of the blue with no

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Speaker 2: warning that he was thinking about leaving within ten days.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday afternoon, and he actually called the phone call a

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Speaker 2: courtesy call.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would pick my words again if you could

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Speaker 4: go back to Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: But somehow your language gave you away.

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Speaker 1: We're going to miss you deeply.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to miss you guys so much. And it

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Speaker 3: does feel abrupt, and I'm glad you're aware.

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Speaker 4: I am aware, like I would have wanted it to

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Speaker 4: finish in a different way. But I leave with nothing

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Speaker 4: but gratitude and so much love for you guys, and

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Speaker 4: for the show. I really it has been an amazing

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Speaker 4: period of my life and in some ways surreal to

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Speaker 4: say goodbye to it. But I can't tell you how

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Speaker 4: much it means that you guys have been supportive, accepting,

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Speaker 4: understanding of this decision. And I'm going to miss you

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Speaker 4: so much.

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Speaker 2: We're going to deeply miss you, Jack, and I miss

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Speaker 2: you every morning because you know, you and I have

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Speaker 2: built the show link by link, show by Chouf last

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Speaker 2: and it is a very uniquely Jack departure.

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Speaker 1: Jack's famous for leaving.

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Speaker 2: When we go out very early. We're two and a

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Speaker 2: half weeks away from marking seven years of the show.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't even get that.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't even get that victory laps. I'll just call

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Speaker 1: it Friday.

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Speaker 3: I've been calling it seven years. But you're right, it's attached.

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Speaker 1: Sure, there's always been.

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Speaker 2: By the seven years, you're really fitting that seven years.

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Speaker 3: You can round it up to seven years, I think.

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Speaker 2: And tell us then because people want to know. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you listen to show reg you know you're a

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Speaker 2: big part of the show, and people want to know

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Speaker 2: why you're going because it's very easy to walk out

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Speaker 2: and shows when they're not going very well, but the

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Speaker 1: Everything is going very well.

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Speaker 2: You and I haven't had a fall out with Sandy's

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Speaker 2: why many shows actually just break apart.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm lovingly letting you go. I want you to be free.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to deeply miss you. But I could tell

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Speaker 2: that even when we spoke very suddenly last week, this

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Speaker 2: was a really really heartfelt decision for you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's not something I do lightly. It's not

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Speaker 4: enough of this. I'm so proud to be leaving where

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Speaker 4: it is. The show's at number one. I love you

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Speaker 4: guys deeply. I wish you all the best for the future.

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Speaker 4: But it's just time for me to go. Something deep

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Speaker 4: in my gut that I can't even really articulate, you

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Speaker 4: saying your time has come, and to find out what

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Speaker 4: is next, I think I have to say goodbye, breathe

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Speaker 4: and see what comes next and what creative energy returns

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Speaker 4: to me and what I could do after this. There

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Speaker 4: is no plan there's definitely no Plan A or Plan B.

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Speaker 2: This has a bit of surprise for yesterday when I

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Speaker 2: met Jack over the week, because I was concerned.

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Speaker 1: I was. I actually said, Jack, you have for money.

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Speaker 2: I was going to lend him some money for a

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Speaker 1: Jobs around, But it.

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Speaker 2: Takes real guts and courage to actually take a leap.

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Speaker 1: And you're not going to another job.

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Speaker 3: No, there's nothing planned.

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Speaker 4: And so what you're gonna do like next week, I

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Speaker 4: don't know. All I could think last night I was

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Speaker 4: like next Sunday, I'll just be here in this same house,

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Speaker 4: have anything to do the next day. And it scares me,

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Speaker 4: terrifies me, but it also excites me and fills me

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Speaker 4: with joy. And it's really hard to explain to people.

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Speaker 4: My parents didn't understand it when I told them. Many

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Speaker 4: have been surprised. There is I'm not got a stepping

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Speaker 4: and I'm calm in the fact that I'll wait for

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Speaker 4: whatever is next.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible, Yeah, I mean, or of your courage to

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Speaker 2: do that, Jack, to actually have the real courage to

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Speaker 2: listen to your own life and what it's asking of you.

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Speaker 2: Most of us, at various times don't listen to that calling.

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Speaker 2: We've deny it for a bit. But you actually did

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Speaker 2: slow down and really did listen to that calling. And

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Speaker 2: you know you've taken a huge decision for you and

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Speaker 2: also your family as well, because you know we've spoken

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Speaker 2: a lot on and off air. You have struggled at

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Speaker 2: times with his as they are really demanding. They are

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Speaker 3: And I look at it.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes I look at you, guys like you've been in

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Speaker 1: When SA look at us, guys, what exactly did that mean?

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Speaker 1: Succurrege to gorgo you're about to die? Please generation, I thought,

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Speaker 1: is that twenty seven years? That for me? I'm leaving

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Speaker 1: just shy of seven of it? Twenty seven I don't

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's commendable.

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Speaker 1: I think commendable. So let me just pat me on

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Speaker 1: the head a commendable young man. John. Yeah, well, shuckers

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Speaker 1: are out of here.

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Speaker 4: But really, sometimes it feels like even though in here

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Speaker 4: and talking to you guys is so much of a joy.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes when you pull back. The whole thing.

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Speaker 4: Does feel like like an endurance challenge, like day after day,

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Speaker 4: week after week, year after a year doing these hours.

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Speaker 3: It took his toll on you, mate, and from rut

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Speaker 3: all the hours.

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Speaker 1: Like I'm you're still there.

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Speaker 3: With it. Last week I thought you were about to

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Speaker 1: She were saying, she's she's got a lot going on

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Speaker 1: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: You didn't hear a Friday when she did the show Cancuss,

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Speaker 2: so it was hard to tell Wash his normal pats

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Speaker 2: on what's concuss?

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Speaker 1: Pats she head by that shower door.

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Speaker 4: But honestly, sometimes it does feel like running a marathon,

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Speaker 4: and I'm just at the end of what I can

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Speaker 4: give and run for this show, even though I love

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Speaker 4: it so much.

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Speaker 1: The toothpaste has been squeezed dry.

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Speaker 4: I've squeezed it out, and I can't be happier to

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Speaker 4: leave it where it is and to still feel the

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Speaker 4: love you guys are giving to me, the support.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to miss you, AMENSI chat big, big

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Speaker 2: part of my life the last seven years. But I

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Speaker 2: still hope the one day you and I are pass

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Speaker 2: across we end up working together in some form down

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Speaker 2: the road.

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Speaker 3: I feel we will.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to play a song right now.

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