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Speaker 1: What's the greatest week of your life that you've had

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Speaker 1: so far? What about you?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm trying to think.

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Speaker 3: I hope that it hasn't happened yet the greatest week

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Speaker 3: of my life.

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Speaker 2: But if I had to come up with something, I

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Speaker 2: would have to go way back. I reckon that.

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Speaker 3: Like I joked before about you know that week after

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Speaker 3: school when you take off on you know, the end

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Speaker 3: of school week, and.

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Speaker 1: Before it was school it was called leavers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well before it.

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Speaker 3: Was called leavers, it was just go away for a

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Speaker 3: week at the end of school. And that's what we did,

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Speaker 3: and we went to Rotnest and there was no big rules.

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Speaker 3: And I have to say that that is sticks in

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Speaker 3: my memory as one of the greatest weeks of my

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Speaker 3: life because it was just it was the beginning of

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Speaker 3: your life in a way.

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Speaker 2: It was it was freedom.

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Speaker 3: You were finished with school, you had this week and

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Speaker 3: you had you know, you had a big lot of

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Speaker 3: holidays ahead of you before you kicked into whatever it

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Speaker 3: was you were doing next, which was all unknown and exciting.

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Speaker 3: I think I met my first sort of proper boyfriend there,

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Speaker 3: who I still have a real fondness for Helos, And.

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Speaker 2: It's just it was.

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Speaker 3: It was a wonderful, wonderful week. Yeah, and then life

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Speaker 3: got real.

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Speaker 1: Yes that things change. I'm a bit like you. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to narrow it down. Maybe maybe the first.

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Speaker 4: Week that I ever spent overseas because I didn't go

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Speaker 4: overseas for a very very long time. Yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 4: actually get a passport, so I was thirty four. So

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Speaker 4: my first week overseas was a week of carnival in Rio.

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Speaker 2: Well start as to go on, as they say.

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Speaker 1: So that was that was a pretty chaotic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was a bit tired at the end, but

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Speaker 4: that was a that was a pretty great week, first

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Speaker 4: time out of home, out of the country. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: so that that would go down as hard to pinpoint

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Speaker 4: any moment during that week because there were a few.

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Speaker 2: Craig and Maddington Hello Craig. Yeah mate, So what does

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Speaker 2: it mean?

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Speaker 5: Crazy good? Look, I'm going to change a little bit,

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Speaker 5: but I'm going to call it the most impactful week

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Speaker 5: of my life. Years ago I started and it was

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Speaker 5: on a long time recommendation from my fielte saying you

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Speaker 5: need to get involved with it. But I started doing

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Speaker 5: some volunteering with zero to Hero, so they are big

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Speaker 5: shout out to zero to Hero. They are involved as

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Speaker 5: an organization in youth suicide prevention in WA and nationally

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Speaker 5: as well, and so they run camps for sort of

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Speaker 5: fifteen to eighteen year olds a couple of times a year,

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Speaker 5: and I started getting involved as a mentor, right so

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Speaker 5: volunteering a week of my time, and honestly it's changed

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Speaker 5: my life doing this a couple of times, being able

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Speaker 5: to be of service to young people for a week,

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Speaker 5: you know, taking nothing in return and just giving away

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Speaker 5: your time and being present to young people that might

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Speaker 5: be going through some things or having some trauma to unpack.

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Speaker 5: Without a doubt, it's absolutely sort of changed my mentality

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Speaker 5: on you can heal yourself by here others without that

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Speaker 5: most impactful week, most important thing I feel that I've

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Speaker 5: done in my life is be able to do that

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Speaker 5: sort of thing for other people as well.

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Speaker 4: So you did get something out of it, didn't you?

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Speaker 4: Massive I did?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, nothing sort of monetary financial or.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Craig can I ask it's really funny that you

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Speaker 3: should call with this this morning, because I was just

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Speaker 3: talking to Russell about something very similar earlier, and I asked,

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Speaker 3: do you have to be a parent.

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Speaker 2: To be a volunteer mentor.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to be a parent. There are certainly

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Speaker 5: so because it's first fifteen to eighteen year old. There's

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Speaker 5: certainly times where I've gone there one year and there's

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Speaker 5: been a seventeen eighteen year old, and the next year

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Speaker 5: when I've come back as a mentor, that same person

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Speaker 5: now nineteen, is now a mentor because they themselves feel

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Speaker 5: so strongly about it and they act as almost an advocate.

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Speaker 5: But it does help, right because two kids have got

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Speaker 5: a five year old and a ten year old, and

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Speaker 5: also a bit you know, a long time ago helped

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Speaker 5: her look after my niece as well. So having some

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Speaker 5: perspective on maybe a bit more life experience certainly does

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Speaker 5: help to you know, let these young people know what's

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Speaker 5: ahead and you know, maybe give you some context around

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Speaker 5: some things. So yeah, it does help.

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Speaker 1: But no, it's not a requirement, right, zero to hero. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's as.

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Speaker 5: I reckon, I love get involved.

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Speaker 1: And I love that. It's yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Certainly a life changing week. Thanks Craig, Thank you, Craig.

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Speaker 4: We really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Malan Woodridge says, when I got married to my amazing

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Speaker 3: husband in two j and his parents' property. It was

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Speaker 3: June twenty twenty, middle of COVID shutdown, so we were

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Speaker 3: only allowed thirty guests, which suited us just fine. We

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Speaker 3: had a lovely day and night, then went to Bustleton

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Speaker 3: for five nights where we had a nice room and

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Speaker 3: a nice hotel and made friends with a really cool

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Speaker 3: cooker Burrough because that's what you did during lockdown, made friends.

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Speaker 2: With the birds of the animals, and it was just glorious.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad it was for you, Milanely, because it it

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Speaker 4: wasn't for so many others at that particular time.

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Speaker 1: Now you made the most of it.

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Speaker 6: John mean Camo, Hello, John rus there are you going.

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Speaker 1: The greatest week? When was it? Why was it?

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Speaker 6: Okay? It probably started? Oh well I was. There was

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Speaker 6: something I'd been thinking about for most on forty years,

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Speaker 6: but was in September twenty twenty three when I finally

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Speaker 6: walked into my dad's hometown in northern Italy.

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Speaker 2: I knew Italy was going to be this story.

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Speaker 3: Always making me jealous with the Italy stories go on.

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Speaker 6: And one look at the place and just was just gobsmacked.

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Speaker 6: You know, I'd heard all the stories and all and

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Speaker 6: all the pictures, but none of that could have prepared

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Speaker 6: me for what it's actually like to sit with your

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Speaker 6: own eyes. It's it's like heaven on earth, just mountains

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Speaker 6: and lakes and rivers and snow caps.

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Speaker 1: Non, Italy is so beautiful. What was the name of

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Speaker 1: the town, John, But.

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Speaker 6: This is just a small village by the called it's

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Speaker 6: called punt In Punte. Oh no, it's about small village. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: it's about twenty minutes from the Swiss border.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, tell me, John b Sorry, go on, it's

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Speaker 7: about And it's also about thirty minutes north for Como

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Speaker 7: of Lake Como.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, you had to slip that in there too.

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Speaker 3: Being your father's hometown, did you immediately feel like some

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Speaker 3: kind of infinity with it as soon as you?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, yeah, you know, And I still got

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Speaker 6: cousins there, I've still got aunties there as well, so

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Speaker 6: I met them for the first time then as well,

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Speaker 6: So that was quite you know, quite special as well,

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Speaker 6: you know. So yeah, and I've been back twice since

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Speaker 4: By the way, have you dropped into George Clooney's place

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Speaker 4: just along the way, because he's up around them, isn't he?

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Speaker 6: John in April.

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Speaker 2: John's even from Como and in brackets he puts.

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Speaker 1: Lake John, that's a that's a great story.

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Speaker 2: To my postcard from Italy in April.

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Speaker 4: We are looking for the greatest week of your life.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you did a bad, bad thing which was kind

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Speaker 4: of bad but.

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Speaker 1: Good Wendy Italy.

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Speaker 3: You're still thinking about your Carnival week. Wendy and Frio

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Speaker 3: says the greatest week of her life has been the

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Speaker 3: legendary blues cruise in the States for her sixtieth birthday celebrations.

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Speaker 2: That would be awesome.

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Speaker 1: What a way to spend your sixtieth Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Brendon and Harrisdale says taking out weddings, birthdays and two births.

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Speaker 3: My best week was the lead up and driving my

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Speaker 3: uncle's speedway race car thirty years ago. That started the

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Speaker 3: addiction and I still race to this day.

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Speaker 1: That would have been an adrenaline rush.

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Speaker 2: Times a dream.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Peter and hunting Dale says this week has been the

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Speaker 3: greatest week of his life because it was his birthday,

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Speaker 3: Happy Birthday, Penn and his granddaughter was born double.

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Speaker 2: He took the week off triple. That's the triflex trifecta

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Speaker 2: right there, well done. That's a very nice week