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Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: We want to talk about scams who've been involved in.

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Speaker 2: I was been interviewed by an old friend of mine

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Speaker 2: the other day in the UK. We used to bell on

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Speaker 2: the same radio station together about fifteen years ago, and

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Speaker 2: he was reminding me about once about a guy who

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Speaker 2: called into my old radio show.

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Speaker 3: It was a green grocer.

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Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you're going to grocers and they got

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Speaker 2: like the organic stuff, and it's more expensive, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: And I've often wondered that they just chuck like a

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Speaker 2: handful of mud on that, you know, And did she

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Speaker 2: just come out there, you know, because it's always muddy

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Speaker 2: or ganny stuff, isn't it. You touch it half that

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Speaker 2: kind of dust on it, it's still ganny. Other like,

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Speaker 2: look at that the stuff that's clean he made in

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Speaker 2: a factory or lavoluntary or something. This shiny, it's sparkling. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: this green grocers said that whenever his mushrooms, the normal

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Speaker 2: unorganic mushrooms were about to turn, they used to go

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Speaker 2: all a bit manky and frayed. He would just get

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Speaker 2: his old talk board out and put organic on the

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Speaker 2: front of them. And chuck on another couple of bucks

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Speaker 2: on the people would he said. People would then come

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Speaker 2: in and the other day going those organing bessy more.

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Speaker 3: Easy scammed, don't we?

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Speaker 2: So this morning I want to know about scams you've

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Speaker 2: been involved in, whether it's like something involved in at

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Speaker 2: school when you were younger, or as an adult scams

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Speaker 2: you've been involved in, Jackie boy, what about you?

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Speaker 4: Well, the kid one reminded me of an excursion we

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Speaker 4: went onto the zoo where one kid found out there

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Speaker 4: was a vending machine that wasn't taking money. You essentially

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Speaker 4: just had to hit what you wanted and a can

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Speaker 4: would come out. So we rotated away from the group

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Speaker 4: going to the toilet and were collecting cans until some

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Speaker 4: kids got too greedy and we had shirt full and.

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Speaker 3: Hoodies full of.

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Speaker 4: Solo and lyft, and then the teachers made us take

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Speaker 4: it to the front desk and put it back.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't it the best day ever? When you when you

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Speaker 3: went on the day trip somewhere? It was just just

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Speaker 3: the chaos that got involved.

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Speaker 5: Pat, Yes, Christian, Now Pat.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about the Big Toe Club.

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Speaker 5: The Big Toe Club. I was playing. I played football,

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Speaker 5: so at the end of the game. But football were

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Speaker 5: in the having a shower and my big toe one

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Speaker 5: painted bright wreck and people are looking at me and

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Speaker 5: what's going on with the toe? I said, come and

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Speaker 5: talk to me later. That's a big toe club. So

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Speaker 5: later on the bloke comes up and goes, what's the

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Speaker 5: girl with the big toe club? And I said, look

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Speaker 5: cost you twenty dollars, there's lots of benefits, so no problems.

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Speaker 5: And he says, well what are the benefits? I can't

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Speaker 5: tell you for twenty four hours. So anyway, he pays

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Speaker 5: me twenty, goes home. You know, next weekend comes he's

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Speaker 5: got his big toe painted, and another bloke that I

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Speaker 5: got the same day, he's got his big toe painted.

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Speaker 5: So everyone in the shoff is trying to look around.

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Speaker 5: There there's three people with big toe clubs. So they

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Speaker 5: asked me, They say, so, what's the trick to what

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Speaker 5: are the benefits of the big toe club? I said, well,

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Speaker 5: now you can go and get someone to paint their

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Speaker 5: big toe and you can get your twenty dollars back

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Speaker 5: and maybe a little bit more. So I just kept

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Speaker 5: going and I've done it on every I played for

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Speaker 5: twenty four clubs around Australia. And I And when I

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Speaker 5: got to Calandra to play and Ronnie Wiimouth it's Collingwood

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Speaker 5: coach player was coach And next thing you know, he

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Speaker 5: comes in the change rooms and there's twelve people with

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Speaker 5: big toe club and he turned around and just looked

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Speaker 5: and me said, Pat in the office, I want to

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Speaker 5: talk to you now. Is we here to play football,

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Speaker 5: not to make money?

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Speaker 2: Got rumbles gone too many?

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Speaker 5: I mean we've done it in Calbouley, Darwin Cans, We've

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Speaker 5: done it everywhere.

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Speaker 4: The how gullible local regional football as a well.

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Speaker 5: They are when you see it's a thing of what's

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Speaker 5: going on? You see one person.

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Speaker 3: That comparamive scheme is actually very smart pant Yeah it was.

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Speaker 5: It was look at silver, I've got my sunder start

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Speaker 5: doing it. When we started.

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Speaker 6: Back in the day, we used to go to the

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Speaker 6: Bachelor and Spinster's Bowls Vness bawls, like a big party

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Speaker 6: out in the middle of a paddy They put a

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Speaker 6: band on and how you tickets for and then it's

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Speaker 6: pretty much all the alcohol you can have. But we

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Speaker 6: didn't want to pay for the tickets, so we would

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Speaker 6: go to the site where it was, find it place

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Speaker 6: to park, and they give you a wristband, like if

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Speaker 6: you go into a music festival or something. And then

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Speaker 6: we find someone who had the risks, who had already

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Speaker 6: paid for the ticket and been given a wristband, we'd

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Speaker 6: pull them aside, give them a couple of beers, and

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Speaker 6: then pulled the little toolkit out and decide to make

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Speaker 6: our own eight one hundred and twenty dollars.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what changing other people to get in?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so you go there, they put a band on,

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Speaker 6: they'll cook a meal, like have a big spit rose

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Speaker 6: meal or something, or a barbecue, and it's all the

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Speaker 6: alcohol you can consume.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we've got that first time. And you think

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Speaker 3: you say that all the alcohol did?

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Speaker 4: They still want to trade you their wristband for beers,

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Speaker 4: even though they n.

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Speaker 6: Everyone's drinking beers before and who's going to knock back

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Speaker 6: three beer?

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Speaker 3: You're quite right? Who can resist such an offer? Nick,

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Speaker 3: thank you very much? You killed me. I have a

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Speaker 3: good day. That's a good on the show, Jody.

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Speaker 7: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good, Joe? How are you going?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Not too bad? So I was a bit of a

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Speaker 7: smooth criminal when I was a couple of scams. Go

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Speaker 7: it on. Okay, So my first one, I'll start flowing,

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Speaker 7: then I'll work up to the big one. So my

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Speaker 7: first one, we used to have to just flash our

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Speaker 7: bus paths when we get on the bus. And so

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Speaker 7: what we used to do is flash the bus pass,

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Speaker 7: run up to the back of the bus, get a

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Speaker 7: couple of people to distract the bus driver while we

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Speaker 7: threw our pass out the window and handed it to

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Speaker 7: the next person who used it to get on the bus.

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Speaker 7: So no one really paid for their bus pass except

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Speaker 7: for one person just you know, mucking around up the

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Speaker 7: back of the bus, throwing food around and stuff like that.

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Speaker 7: You know, So the editing to make the bus driver

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Speaker 7: turn around and take his focus as well.

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Speaker 2: Now the most easy distracted people in the world bus

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Speaker 2: drivers bus drivers.

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Speaker 7: And keeping in mind, this wasn't for money, this was

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Speaker 7: for popularity. So anyway, my second one was we used

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Speaker 7: to go for a Sunday drive to Ballarat and they

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Speaker 7: have a trash and treasure market there and they used

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Speaker 7: to sell all the old pennies and things like that.

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Speaker 7: So we used to buy like a whole whole handful,

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Speaker 7: like a big handful for fifty cents, and we take

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Speaker 7: them home and if you glue two together, color them

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Speaker 7: in with a gold texter, they look like a two

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Speaker 7: dollar cold. You used to take them to the canteen

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Speaker 7: and buy our hot jam donuts in the morning without

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Speaker 7: make a fellar.

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Speaker 4: How often did the caunterbit pass?

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Speaker 7: Well, we got away with them for over a year,

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Speaker 7: so I was a good year of hot jam and

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Speaker 7: a lot of friends. All I've never forgotten.

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Speaker 3: No you won't.

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Speaker 2: Let's got a Vinnie good Vinnie, thanks for calling the show.

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Speaker 2: I hope you well, And what's your scam?

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Speaker 8: All right? So basically back in high school, which was

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Speaker 8: like a good twelve years ago, more basically we had

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Speaker 8: yard duties, so you know, you go pick up rubbish

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Speaker 8: for today and as I thank you from the school

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Speaker 8: get you get a free drink and lunch. So basically

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Speaker 8: what they do they give you a piece of paper

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Speaker 8: saying that you've done yard duty, and you take it

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Speaker 8: to the canteen and you basically get free food. So

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Speaker 8: I can't all of the idea that I'll go home

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Speaker 8: jumping Microsoft. We're type up the same thing and basically

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Speaker 8: laminate it but basically my mates and myself will just

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Speaker 8: scam me it and we're just getting free lunch. I

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Speaker 8: reckon a good at least thirty times or so.

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Speaker 3: And then what happened? When did you get rumbled? When

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Speaker 3: was the scam?

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Speaker 8: I didn't really get like like we've sort of thought,

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Speaker 8: you know, we'll take your break because a canteen ladyhoire

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Speaker 8: looking at us and they're like, geez, you're picking up

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Speaker 8: a lot of run. So, yeah, we bought, will probably

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Speaker 8: stop justification.

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Speaker 5: That we got caught.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, finish on top.

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