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Speaker 1: Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: All right, so it's a week a week's time, Oh

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Speaker 2: it is? It is Wednesday, next Wednesday, the first of March.

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Speaker 2: Backstreet Boys are in town and we are taking twenty

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Speaker 2: four guys.

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Speaker 3: Yes, is that what it is?

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Speaker 2: Twenty four guys for our Backstreet Boys Boys Night Out?

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Speaker 1: Boys? What to do?

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell's Backstreet Boys Boys Night Out.

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Speaker 2: No getting your wife or your girlfriend or your mom

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Speaker 2: to say, oh, it's in balas to call the show,

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Speaker 2: but he loves the Backstreet Boys. Own it, Own it

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Speaker 2: mad Dragons need only apply flap your wings and fly

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Speaker 2: to rod Lavor Arena when I actually don't need to fly.

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Speaker 2: We going to our local pub, the London turbn here

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Speaker 2: in Richmond, and then how we get into rod Lavor

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Speaker 2: Hello Number one two limos to take twenty four guys.

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Speaker 3: Or twenty six including uh wow?

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Speaker 2: All right, So who have we recruited so far? Who

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Speaker 2: is in? Who is a man dragon?

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Speaker 3: We've got six boys on the Boys tour so far.

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Speaker 3: Trevor aka Thesis he's studying at the moment, needs to

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Speaker 3: break up his study with all boys. Ashley aka Available.

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Speaker 2: Recently divorced fresh on the market, hot to trot if

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Speaker 2: the limo's rocking available? No, no, let's not follow that

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Speaker 2: one available that's actually available, he's available. Guys.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we got Jack, Liam and Chris also Bubby acare.

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Speaker 2: Don't know any nicknames? Can't just rush over them. He

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Speaker 2: got Liam not a nickname? And Chris? What about the

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Speaker 2: guy Bruno whose wife called in before we insta get

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Speaker 2: the new role?

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Speaker 3: Do we kick him out?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: That's it's exactly unavailable? Bruno unavailable. We can still have

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Speaker 2: a nickname. But what about world Liam and Chris? So

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Speaker 2: the rest of them are gonna have nicknames? Liam and

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Speaker 2: Chris I never.

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Speaker 3: Got It's so true. If you don't have a nickname,

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Speaker 3: you're going I look at him.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, Chris applied two years ago for this

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Speaker 2: when we first started talking about it. So what do

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Speaker 2: we do with that?

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Speaker 3: Could he be called Longevity.

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Speaker 2: The veteran start? Yeah, okay, Longevity the veteran, the veteran? Yes,

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Speaker 2: the O G, the og the o G. Okay, Chris,

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Speaker 2: what about old Liam FITZI? What what's his story?

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Speaker 5: Rio remind us Liam was in the closet Backstreet Boys fan.

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Speaker 2: He's not calling anyone. Stop trying to get us canceled

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Speaker 2: every day some new thing. Hey, why don't you say this?

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Speaker 2: Reclaim it?

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Speaker 5: No, he's now come out like, all, what should we do?

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Speaker 2: He's butterfly, Butterfly, that's it, So Liam, Butterfly.

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Speaker 3: He was a caterpillar who was afraid to say you

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Speaker 3: love the Backstreet Boys. Now we've given him the chance

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Speaker 3: to step forward and say I am a beautiful butterfly

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Speaker 3: who loves the boys.

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Speaker 2: Flap those butterfly wings. Okay, some new applications. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to word Glen.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Christian, Glenn here, I'd love to come along to

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Speaker 6: your Backstreet Boys boys night out. Sadly, I know all

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Speaker 6: too well the perils of overdoing it before a Backstreet

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Speaker 6: Boys gig. Having missed large parts of the two thousand

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Speaker 6: and five Never Gone Concert due to a Vokro induced

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Speaker 6: funny tummy eighteen years later, this is my shot at redemption.

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Speaker 6: I owe it to AJ Brian, Kevin Howey and Nick

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Speaker 6: to see much more of the concert and much less

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Speaker 6: of the men's toilets. So quit playing games with my heart,

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Speaker 6: Christian and pick me. I promise I'll behave myself this time.

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Speaker 2: Glenn aka funny Tommy, You're it. Yeah, we got to

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Speaker 2: get him along. Okay, So Glenn's in now. Yesterday we

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Speaker 2: heard from Bobby, who was so desperate to come in

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Speaker 2: he'd made his own a cappella song. This is Bobby

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Speaker 2: aka the Voice, Show.

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Speaker 4: Me the thrill of the Backstreet boys. I just kill

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Speaker 4: we do hang with Christians boys. Tell me why I can't.

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Speaker 1: Join him with his night up?

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Speaker 4: I just can't den missing.

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Speaker 2: Now he sent us a brand new one, much by

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Speaker 2: public demand. Haven't listen to this from I'm familiar with

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Speaker 2: this battery boy song just as Lucky Few. Anyway, this

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Speaker 2: is a brand new one from the Voice, Bobby.

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Speaker 4: I don't care about your past.

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Speaker 1: We made this less.

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Speaker 4: We're in Christian screw just us Lucky. You seem to

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Speaker 4: be his be sound all the world rast round with

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Speaker 4: Christian and Jack.

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Speaker 1: What a night on the down Baby?

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Speaker 6: He is good.

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Speaker 2: That's it. We know that song? That's I mean, will

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Speaker 2: I love that one? Because they have the harmonies, don't

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Speaker 2: they When the other mumblies in the band, they go

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Speaker 2: and they go, you can have a go. Now. They

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Speaker 2: come from the back where they're sort of doing the

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Speaker 2: old side to sidecars.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Backstreet Boys Bringing their Long Away to TNA, Well to

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Speaker 2: Rod Laver Arena February twenty eight and March the first

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Speaker 2: next Wednesday Night. Marster versus when Jack and I going,

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Speaker 2: We're twenty four of you for our Backstreet Boys Boys

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Speaker 2: Nights Out. You can get your tickets to go as

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Speaker 2: well Live nation dot com dot Au. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: give away some more spots.

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Speaker 1: Damien, Hello, how are you going?

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Speaker 2: We're good, Damien. So tell us about yourself and why

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Speaker 2: you'd love to come to the Backstreet Boys Boys Night Out.

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Speaker 7: Mate on six o' four strong men Highland Games athletes.

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Speaker 7: So I break all the molds of being a Battery

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Speaker 7: Boys fan, pull the steam train, dead lifted over three

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Speaker 7: hundred and sixty TLOs. Probably, I'm just desperate to come

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Speaker 7: for a boys' night out, to see Bastery Boys and

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Speaker 7: relive my late nineties teen years of singing dancing in

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Speaker 7: my bedroom.

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Speaker 2: This is amazing. So did you say you deadlifted three

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Speaker 2: hundred and something kilos.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I was lucky enough to compete at the Arnolds back

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Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen before COVID took away a few things

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Speaker 7: and I popped out at three sixty on a frame lift,

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Speaker 7: but I have.

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Speaker 2: Levels three hundred and sixty kilos.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it was a big lift. It was a

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Speaker 7: lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: And Jack and I both put our backs out deadlifting

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Speaker 2: like twenty kilos all right, so we're like, what my

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Speaker 2: back is actually twitching? My L five and L four.

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Speaker 3: I don't think the gym I go to even has

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Speaker 3: three hundred and sixty kilograms a collective way.

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Speaker 7: So yeah, like, I'm still training not as heavy as

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Speaker 7: I used to. I'm an older man at forty five.

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Speaker 7: You can't train with heavyweights as much, but I still

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Speaker 7: I still compete for fun.

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Speaker 3: And when did you pull the steam train?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: No, no, it was It was at steam Rail in Newport.

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Speaker 7: It was this year and we did it for charity.

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Speaker 7: My best friend and I. We raised money for charities

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Speaker 7: by pulling ridiculous things. So he's been on the news

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Speaker 7: a fair bit.

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Speaker 2: What is he pulled? What's the trap record?

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Speaker 7: Uh? Well, the steam train is probably the heaviest thing

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Speaker 7: we pulled. It was close to I think one hundred

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Speaker 7: and eighty ton from memory, and we did that together.

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Speaker 7: But a couple of weeks ago he pulled the gondolas

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Speaker 7: at Luna Park in Sydney's.

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Speaker 2: As a it's a step down from on AE hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what though, Jamie, seriously, you have any

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Speaker 2: mate what's his name?

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Speaker 7: Troponly and our The charity that he set up that

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Speaker 7: I'm part of is called Pool for Purpose.

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Speaker 2: Why don't we find a challenge in Melbourne for you too.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like a great charity. Let's find the next

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Speaker 2: huge everything for you guys to live together. We'll do

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Speaker 2: it with the show to raise for that.

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Speaker 3: Always always early brainstorm, Damien two gondolas.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever have you ever tried to pull a plane?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we both did it together a couple of years

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Speaker 7: ago in New Zealand as a team with the New

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Speaker 7: Zealand Air Force. So it allowed us to fly over

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Speaker 7: and meet some of the guys in New Zealand. It

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Speaker 7: was a lot of fun. But yeah, the money we

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Speaker 7: raised for an organization called Little Wings that for sick

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Speaker 7: kids and their families from Regional Regional New South Wales,

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Speaker 7: Regional VIC and Regional Queensland. It's the hospital so that

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Speaker 7: they're to travel six, ten, eight twelve hours to get

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Speaker 7: the cares that they need.

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Speaker 2: Oh, great, guys, doing that. I'm serious, right, let's definitely

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Speaker 2: do something together. We will have a think then, very

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Speaker 2: quickly today about the next big thing you pull, and

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Speaker 2: we'll do it for that charity. I'd love to do

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Speaker 2: that game on.

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Speaker 7: We're always ready.

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Speaker 2: Now actually trying to remember what he called it. Yes,

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Speaker 2: of course, you come into the back, you can. You

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Speaker 2: can bench press the limo with us all in it

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Speaker 2: done done?

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Speaker 3: Does your other strong making mate when it comes to

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Speaker 3: thirteen in Melbourne?

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Speaker 7: Now he lives in Sydney, all right.

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Speaker 2: Pull him down, yep, via gondola. Damien, you've got it

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Speaker 2: be in So how big they say you were six four?

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Speaker 2: What are you wear? You're obviously a solid unit.

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Speaker 7: I'm a little bit overweight at the moment, so I'm

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Speaker 7: sitting at one fifty kg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's latent power? Is it for you? Heavy man?

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Speaker 2: You know that's that's it's all laton power. We need

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Speaker 2: a nickname obviously for Damien. No, no, no, it's obs. Let's

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Speaker 2: go tiny, he's tiny, tiny, Yeah, we've got to call

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Speaker 2: him Tony Damon.

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