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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Christ I remember a time, back in the day whenever Australia,

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Speaker 2: our household would have had a backyard incinerator that you

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Speaker 2: could burn each Sunday.

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Speaker 3: What.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when we bought our first place, it had the

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Speaker 1: remnants of what was the incinerator pit in the back

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Speaker 1: corner of the Yeah, I mean I was it was

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Speaker 1: before my time, but they had it where it was

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Speaker 1: and it was just a pile of ash. And I

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Speaker 1: guess what did you do?

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Speaker 4: Burn on?

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Speaker 5: You?

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Speaker 4: Rubbish?

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Speaker 6: Everything leaves, especially in autumn like suburbs were just a

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Speaker 6: haze of smoke with everyone burning their leaves.

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Speaker 2: It's a miracle that we escaped out the Saturday staighties,

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Speaker 2: isn't it?

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Speaker 4: Pat Seriously?

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Speaker 1: And did you burn rubbish?

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Speaker 4: Actually?

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Speaker 7: Like absolutely everything got burn Jack, Yeah, in that.

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Speaker 4: Past is why the world is like this.

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Speaker 1: Whenky Australia, when we when we were renovating that house

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Speaker 1: in Cobert, Yeah, the incinerator appear in the back and

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Speaker 1: then underneath the ground was a whole lot of buried bottles.

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Speaker 7: Oh wow, what are you really?

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Speaker 1: Old ones that cast.

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Speaker 4: In any way, shape or form. Very all right, Patsy.

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Speaker 2: Can we hear about the letter from the Aunties and

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Speaker 2: the circular saw?

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 6: So I've got a deer Auntie in regional Vick who

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Speaker 6: still likes to pin a letter and post it, you know,

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Speaker 6: old school, which I love.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, So dying, Oh is that letter writing? He is?

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Speaker 6: And it's so nice because you normally just get bills

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Speaker 6: in the letter box, and it's so lovely when you

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Speaker 6: get a letter from Nie.

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Speaker 2: Or you might get a birthday card, and even now

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Speaker 2: obviously out to I now have to buy the same

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Speaker 2: birthday card twice because not you sue handwriting.

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Speaker 4: Well, I make a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I actually bought four different birthday cards, my

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Speaker 1: daughter's eighteenth on Monday, and the night before I screwed up.

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Speaker 4: Three of them. One I misspelled her name. Just writing

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Speaker 4: this name for eighteen years, getting all nervous.

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Speaker 1: You do get a second chance.

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Speaker 4: Undo typing anymore.

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Speaker 7: She's got that beautiful cursive script.

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Speaker 6: And you know when you see the envelope in your mailbox,

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Speaker 6: oh it's up Mary, and you can't wait to open

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Speaker 6: a letter anyway.

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Speaker 4: Well, she writes you just about what's been going on

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Speaker 4: for her, Just what's.

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Speaker 6: Going on for them, her and her husband John, and

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Speaker 6: what I'd.

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Speaker 2: Be quite happy actually for you to communicate with Jack

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Speaker 2: and I just put it in a letter or something,

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Speaker 2: send it to us so we can catch up another

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Speaker 2: love little an update once a month with something about.

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Speaker 4: The lost spectacles.

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Speaker 6: But her latest letter is I was absolutely horrified, actually,

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Speaker 6: but it was just the way that she downplayed it,

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Speaker 6: because you know they're up in Wing Garada.

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Speaker 7: They're country tough, they are so tough. So I'll read

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Speaker 7: you a little excerpt of what she what she's wrote amusing.

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Speaker 6: Uncle John had a little mishap with the circular saw

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Speaker 6: last week and slipped coming.

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Speaker 7: To grief with his testicles. A quick dash to.

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Speaker 6: The hospital and he is now recovering at home. But

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Speaker 6: still it could have been far worse.

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Speaker 2: She wrote that impursive writing, looked at it, folded the

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Speaker 2: letter and half and sent it to you.

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Speaker 4: Who needs a letter about a testicular accident?

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Speaker 6: How awful is that?

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Speaker 4: How did you manage that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand a finger, maybe even cutting into

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Speaker 1: an armback.

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Speaker 4: Now I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't understand a finger being severed with

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Speaker 1: a circular sawd But that's you can understand. There's more

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Speaker 1: of a chance to clip your finger off. How are

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Speaker 1: you getting the getting down there?

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Speaker 4: Where there is? I know they start to lower as

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Speaker 4: you get older.

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Speaker 1: You felt suddenly you're cutting wood or soaring and suddenly

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Speaker 1: the ball bag just slips into place, swinging and swinging

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Speaker 1: in the wind.

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Speaker 6: But how awful is like that is actually like it's

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Speaker 6: kind of you have to kind of laugh.

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Speaker 7: But it could have.

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Speaker 1: Been so well, that's why you should have never gone

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Speaker 1: into working in a hospital.

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Speaker 4: Have I got some hard you? Are you gonna die?

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Speaker 4: It's the funniest my dearest.

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Speaker 1: As she writes back, I couldn't stop laughing.

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Speaker 4: Think about Uncle's test. So were they are they quickly gone?

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Speaker 4: What is he? No?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 7: So he was stitch The poor poor uncle Johnny was.

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Speaker 4: Shout out to Uncle john from moment.

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Speaker 6: Lots of ice packs and I thought they would have

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Speaker 6: kept him in overnight, But no, in and out back

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Speaker 6: home recovering better and.

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Speaker 2: The wound grow back all they won't.

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Speaker 4: You'ren old man, You don't really need them anymore, to

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Speaker 4: be honest, country vasecto me. Can you just read that

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Speaker 4: line again? And because there's no warning.

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Speaker 7: Like you know, she just goes straight in.

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Speaker 4: She just goes. So I want to I want to

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Speaker 4: hear the line again, Jack, Patsy.

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Speaker 6: Uncle John had a little mishap with the circular saw

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Speaker 6: last week and slipped coming to.

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Speaker 7: Grief with his testicles. A quick dash to the hospital

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Speaker 7: and he's now recovering at.

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Speaker 4: High but he's not driving himself.

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Speaker 7: The hospital driven him on. So she still drives.

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Speaker 6: But still it could have been far worse. It's like,

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Speaker 6: look on the bright side, John, But it's the fact.

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Speaker 2: That she actually put pen to paper, you know, and thought,

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Speaker 2: you know what this is? This is another This demands

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Speaker 2: a letter to Patsy.

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Speaker 1: Something she can put with the magnet on the frie

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Speaker 1: This can't wait for a Christmas catch up. This needs

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Speaker 1: to be sealed and inked and sent through the post

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Speaker 1: to Patsy.

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Speaker 4: All Right, you.

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Speaker 2: Country tough, We love him. Stories about Country Tough. Christian

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Speaker 2: o'connalls Show podcast, Christian O'Connell's show. Soccer's just equalized in

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Speaker 2: the World Cup qualifier against bar Rain two or during

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Speaker 2: a mysterious ten minutes of injury time which I have

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Speaker 2: never heard of ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: I have never.

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Speaker 2: Heard of ten minutes of injury time. But you've got

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Speaker 2: to be at the World Cup. Christian, I heard Jack

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Speaker 2: and Pats talk about old school incinerators. We also had

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Speaker 2: one in our backyard in the eighties, and I fat

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Speaker 2: my dad and his mates used to come round after

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Speaker 2: the Footye they just stand around and throw their empty

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Speaker 2: beer bottles into the fire and just.

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Speaker 1: Stare into it. Paper plates are after a barbecue. Who

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Speaker 1: all just went into the pit at the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the God Maybe that's why counsel started hard rubbish. It's

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Speaker 1: like everyone's got to stop Bernie stuff.

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Speaker 4: Please.

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Speaker 1: We'll take it.

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Speaker 4: From you, Christian.

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Speaker 2: When I started my first top job, the lawyer taught

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Speaker 2: me how to screw up paper correctly. So a burm

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Speaker 2: better in the backyard. And all right, there's tough and

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Speaker 2: then there is country tough. We're looking for stories today

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Speaker 2: about country tough.

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Speaker 4: It might be years.

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Speaker 2: Somebody know the family nine four one one four three Caroline,

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Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, guys. How's everybody?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Good?

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Speaker 4: So is it someone in the family and auntie and uncle?

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Speaker 3: No, this would mean my dad. And it's amazing that

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Speaker 3: he's still alive today with the amount of times he's

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Speaker 3: Country tough. We call him Frankenstein because he puts himself

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Speaker 2: He's invented self healing pretty much.

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Speaker 3: Pretty much. He stays out of hospitals as much as

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Speaker 3: he can because he puts himself back together. Basically, the

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Speaker 3: best one I can give you this morning is he

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Speaker 3: was out ocean fishing by himself, cut himself with his

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Speaker 3: fishing knife rather badly. Knew he wouldn't get back to

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Speaker 3: the hospital in time to get it stitched properly, so

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Speaker 3: he stitched in himself with the fishing line he had.

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Speaker 2: God, I've seen that in the movie Rambo, where he

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Speaker 2: stitches himself back up because he's Rambo.

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Speaker 3: Well, he then apparently put the rag in the salt

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Speaker 3: water and then wrapped it up.

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Speaker 4: Is tough and in fact, Roadhouse.

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Speaker 3: He's known to use super glue, not the hospital kind.

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Speaker 3: And he's also cemented loose loose teeth and teeth falling out.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean cemented?

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Speaker 3: Cemented? He's used old style cements to cement his teeth.

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Speaker 3: If a dentist gets him in a dentist chair, he's

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Speaker 5: All that robin in his mouth and masonry masonry drill, literally,

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Speaker 5: I wonder it's walking medical game.

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Speaker 3: Near a Mason news drill. He's already got like missing toes,

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Speaker 3: missing fingers, he's sliced his calf off.

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Speaker 2: His off his Now we all understand, you're right, he

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Speaker 2: is human Frankenstein pretty.

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Speaker 3: Much pretty much. He's still getting around, knocking around. He's

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Speaker 3: in his he's like seventies now, so but he puts

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Speaker 2: Do you know what we've heard various stories over the

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Speaker 2: is about country toff, but the cement in the cement

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Speaker 2: in the teeth is in new high for country.

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Speaker 3: You look small, yeah, yeah, don't get him smile yeah,

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Speaker 3: or cementing crumbly.

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Speaker 4: Brick jaw, yeah, pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for telling us about Dad Frankenstein.

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Speaker 3: Okaye, no worries at all.

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Speaker 2: Have a good day, Well, good morning, we're going.

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Speaker 4: So you've got a story for us about country tough today?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, loading a truck and wouldn't get the load chuck properly.

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Speaker 8: So I asked the foalk you to help me push

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Speaker 8: the pole over and stop my finger cork with the

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Speaker 8: finger from top to bottom down to the bone, and

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Speaker 8: then continue to finish loading, and then drove home unloaded,

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Speaker 8: and went and then drove home in another two hours and

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Speaker 8: then put them my missus, I think I need to

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Speaker 8: go to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: So when you when you continued loading, are you getting

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Speaker 1: blood over all everything?

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Speaker 8: No, I just throw a rag around it.

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Speaker 4: Wow, that's country tough. Well, thank you very much, you

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Speaker 4: call mate. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast