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Speaker 2: App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell

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Speaker 1: It is strange being a man. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: what happened to me yesterday. My wife sent me to going.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're downside of a moving house at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year and we need some new wooden

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Speaker 1: flooring apparently, so my wife sent me to go and

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Speaker 1: pick up some wooden floor samples, right, and so I

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Speaker 1: just thought these would be you know, about the size

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Speaker 1: of you could fit them in your hand. I go

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Speaker 1: to this place where the guy who greets me is

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Speaker 1: is an intimidating man's man like massive man hands like

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Speaker 1: both of his hands were like baseball catcher Mitch.

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Speaker 2: And they were.

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Speaker 1: Tough, calloused, the hands of a man who doesn't honest

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Speaker 1: day's work.

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Speaker 2: Where's mine? Are not the hand to moment it doesn't

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Speaker 2: know the stays what they are.

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Speaker 1: They're soft, just looks like they're almost on baby's hands.

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Speaker 1: These are not the hands of a manual labor of

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Speaker 1: a trade. And so these these samples I need to

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Speaker 1: take through them away. They were five foot by two foot,

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Speaker 1: so five foot high by two foot and I was like,

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Speaker 1: my god, I got to get these in the car,

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Speaker 1: gonna put the seats down. All while this guy is

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Speaker 1: watching me and one born judging me.

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 1: So he eyes me up and down. He goes, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need some help with these, and I go, na,

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Speaker 1: na right, but now yeah now yeah no no nah

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Speaker 1: so good? Yeah now should be right? Should be right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeh rip And mate, I said now yeah nah

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Speaker 1: yeah nah no no, no, I've got this.

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Speaker 2: I've got this. So I wobble out there and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you've got it. You really have got a big bod.

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Speaker 1: You've got to And it's so much every to get

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Speaker 1: these three wooden panels and they're so heavy, and I'm

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Speaker 1: struggling out like mister Bean, wobbling around with these.

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Speaker 2: It's like a sort of core level workout.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to I'm trying to clench my core,

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Speaker 1: even find my core, and then get to the car

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Speaker 1: put them up, I think his car. And this guy's

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Speaker 1: watching me the whole time. He's like looking out like

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Speaker 1: you need some hand, princess. No, no, no, no, no, I've got

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Speaker 1: this I've got this, and then that's the fumbling around.

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Speaker 1: You ever try to put your seats down in a

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Speaker 1: car under pressure. It's terrifying, right, it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: test for any man. I get the seats down, okay,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm actually get these huge timber bits into

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Speaker 1: the car. I go into the driver's seat right, and

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Speaker 1: I suddenly look at my left hand and there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a splinter.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, I.

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Speaker 1: Mumy look the other way, Mummy, don't you pull it up?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, I'm trying to get out.

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Speaker 1: And then suddenly I look up and I can just

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Speaker 1: see him still staring at me, knows judging me, judging

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Speaker 1: me about weeping about a tiny little splinter.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to almost go back in, going Greg, can

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Speaker 2: you get this? Can? Do you wear gloves?

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Speaker 4: Do this work?

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Speaker 2: It must be so painful.

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Speaker 1: Rio have you experienced man shame recently? It's strange being

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Speaker 1: a man.

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Speaker 3: I know where do these expectations come from? I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: But we bought a fancy Japanese knife a couple of

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Speaker 3: months ago. We've used it and now it's gotten pretty dull.

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Speaker 2: And what do you mean dull? What you're bored of it. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it blunt. Do you mean it's got blunt? It's got dull. Oh,

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Speaker 2: it's just not.

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Speaker 1: The same anymore so boring. I know who moves Japanese blade.

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Speaker 4: It no longer thrills me.

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Speaker 1: Any relationship gets out. You've got the seven blade ditch.

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Speaker 1: They rust it really easily to crown.

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Speaker 3: You have to take such meticulous care of them, so

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Speaker 3: much so you can't use a normal knife sharp, and

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Speaker 3: you can't use that long cylindrical thing, nor can you

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Speaker 2: Cheating those things you even do anything. I've got one

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Speaker 2: of those. I'm not confused it does anything. I feel

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Speaker 2: like a butcher when I'm doing it, though, it's reassuring.

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Speaker 1: We feel like you're continuing some ancient tradition when you

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Speaker 1: pull that thing back and forth in there, grinding it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, this one you have to use the wetstone, which

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Speaker 3: is a whole other level. And we tried, we tried,

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Speaker 3: can't get the exact angle correct. We've tried everything, so

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Speaker 3: I have had to sort of put my tail between

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Speaker 4: And there's a guy. Man, find a man, real man.

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Speaker 4: There's a guy on Bridge Road who'll sharpen your knives.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean a guy? Is he working out

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of crazy people on Bridge Road with knives.

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Speaker 1: Probably shouldn't call the police. Don't give him a Japanese

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Speaker 1: one for crying out, lad give in Patsy's news at

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Speaker 1: seven of Samurai John's got some new tools.

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Speaker 2: So do you mean what that's his business?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a there's a knife smith.

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Speaker 3: I'm not across the nomenclatcher, but normal clatcher.

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Speaker 2: Get you in your double decree, normal clatcher.

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Speaker 3: I don't know it's a knife shop. I think it's

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Speaker 3: called Chef's Armory on Bridge Road.

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Speaker 1: A great name for a business. It's the name armory

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Speaker 1: has me Chef's Armory.

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Speaker 4: There was a.

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Speaker 1: Mobile one in Sydney and he to go around on

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Speaker 1: a motorbike and he had one of those filing things

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Speaker 1: on the back of his motorbike. And now I've seen

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Speaker 1: that there's a mobile guy goes on in a neighborhood

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Speaker 1: yet sharpening people's knives.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I see him with a.

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Speaker 1: Load of kitchen knives all laid out on the front

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Speaker 1: of someone's lawn. He's on his knees sharpening it. Like

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Speaker 1: you couldn't even let the dude in the house. You go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just do it out in the front.

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Speaker 2: It looks terrifying. It's like John Wicks out there on

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Speaker 2: some new mission. Good job.

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Speaker 3: It's a very humbling experience going to another man and

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Speaker 3: saying like, I can't sharpen my knives.

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Speaker 2: No, actually, I think it's no.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like there are these ancient jobs, aren't

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Speaker 1: they that have been around for a very very long time.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that I still exist. That's his that's his craft.

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Speaker 1: You're keeping that ritual alive. Can ask how much is

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Speaker 1: it to sharpener? So do you just take one knife?

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Speaker 4: I just took one Japanese knife. It was about fifteen bucks,

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Speaker 4: I think, to get a sharp.

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Speaker 2: What do you wait while he does it at the back?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 5: I just I left it with him and then I

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Speaker 5: came back a day later, a day. He doesn't need

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Speaker 5: a day to do that. He's having a laugh out

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Speaker 5: the battle. Fifteen bucks? Wait is this going to hand

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Speaker 5: it to you? And here go, oh it's so sharp now,

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Speaker 5: but nothing's been done.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't know the difference to be honest.

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