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Speaker 1: One.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever thrown money into the Trevi Fountain.

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Speaker 3: I've been to it, but I didn't throw any money

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Speaker 3: in it because I'm too cheap.

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Speaker 2: That's the end of this podcast. I just well, I

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Speaker 2: only had like to go in and take some out.

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Speaker 3: I ate two dollars euro coins on me. I'm not

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Speaker 3: thrown away to euros.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a very old it's a very old tradition.

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Speaker 2: It dates back to the Roman, British and Celtic mythology.

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Speaker 2: It's supposed to be bringing you, obviously good luck and

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Speaker 2: protecting you against nasty spiritual entities. I didn't know that. Apparently,

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Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do. There's a very specific tradition

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Speaker 2: of using your right hand to launch the coin over

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Speaker 2: your left shoulder, and it means you're returned to Rome

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Speaker 2: at some point. I just chucked it in. I didn't

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Speaker 2: know I had, So I've wasted my wish. I've wasted

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Speaker 2: my wish.

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Speaker 3: Have you been back to Rome?

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Speaker 2: Since I can't remember? I think I have. Well with

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Speaker 2: beyond two thousand, i'd fly in and fly out, so

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Speaker 2: I didn't necessarily go there, you were, I was a

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Speaker 2: fi fi. That's quite right. They collect the money if

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Speaker 2: you ever wondered what happens to the money in the

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Speaker 2: triviy fauntrci, I have because how often do they collect?

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Speaker 2: Twice a week? No, twice a week, twice a week?

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Speaker 2: Extracting the coins is a spectacle apparently, so workers from

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Speaker 2: the regional utility Acea balance on the edge of the

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Speaker 2: baroque fountain using long brooms and suction hoses so that

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Speaker 2: they sweep the coins into a long line by a

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Speaker 2: long reach broom. Then they suck them up by hoses

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Speaker 2: and take them to the offers yea, the offers where

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Speaker 2: they're spread across a huge table for drying, and then

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Speaker 2: the coins are given to a not for profit organization

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Speaker 2: run by the Catholic Church. Catholic Church, Yeah, it uses

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Speaker 2: the money for food banks, souper kitchens, welfare projects in Rome.

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Speaker 2: Do you no matter how much they get? I guess? So,

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Speaker 2: how did you say twice a week they collected twice

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Speaker 2: a week? That it doesn't matter how often they collected

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Speaker 2: how much over a year.

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Speaker 3: Every year or twice a week over a year, But.

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Speaker 2: Twice a week doesn't enter into it. If they collect

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Speaker 2: it once a year, it's still the same amount.

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Speaker 3: One hundred thousand lira. No lira, that's euros one hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: One point four million euros. Twenty twenty two. That's about

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Speaker 2: two point two million Australian dollars and they expect to

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Speaker 2: have even more in twenty twenty three. Wow, interesting, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You people just tend to do all this stuff. One

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Speaker 2: of the oldest examples of a wishing world resides in

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Speaker 2: England's Northumberland County, where people make offerings to the goddess Coventina. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's interesting. As modern people, we don't believe this stuff,

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Speaker 2: but you still think it's a nice tradition to do.

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Speaker 3: But it's like when you kiss the Blarney stone. You

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Speaker 3: see the Barney stone, it's all shiny from people kissing it.

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Speaker 2: Well, even the one in front of isn't it State

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Speaker 2: Parliament here in Sydney.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the bull.

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Speaker 2: I think I've kissed its nose. It's the blindy stone.

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Speaker 2: Is it a stone?

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Speaker 3: It's a stone. You go to hang down and kiss

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Speaker 3: the blinding stone where you go on?

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Speaker 2: Just shaped like a stone? Is it shaped as an animal?

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Speaker 3: I couldn't be by the queuing up for it set

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Speaker 3: up a kissing booth to the Book of Kels instead.

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Speaker 2: What's the Book of kel a book in behind a class?

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Speaker 2: What does it tell you Celtic? I can't speak that,

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Speaker 2: but well you didn't even read what it's about the

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Speaker 2: q Jonesy stone.

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Speaker 3: That's why where there was no que and okay boom.

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Speaker 2: I think the look of Kels is it like? Is

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Speaker 2: that like the Doomsday book? Or was that a different thing?

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Speaker 2: Were you win there?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: I didn't read it and I didn't even look at

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Speaker 3: the plak. I just went up to the pub for

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Speaker 3: a guinness and a pie.

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Speaker 2: The Billaggio found in Las Vegas takes in about seventeen

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Speaker 2: eighteen thousand dollars a year. That's in Australia. This is

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Speaker 2: interesting because we're so used to the tradition if you

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Speaker 2: see a body of water and chuck a coin in.

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Speaker 2: Visitors to the nine to eleven Memorial in New York

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Speaker 2: City it's very somber, and it's you often go there.

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Speaker 2: Once you've come out, it's very somber. People have been

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Speaker 2: chucking coins in, and a plea has come from the

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Speaker 2: memorial and museum saying please don't do it. It's against

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Speaker 2: the rules. But they've retrieved four thousand dollars from the property.

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Speaker 2: So people see a thing of water and chuck it in,

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Speaker 2: it's not for that. It's not for that. If people

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Speaker 2: want to come to my backyard, I've got a very small,

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Speaker 2: small swimming pool. If you want to come and chuck coins,

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Speaker 2: feel free. I put them on my drying table and

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Speaker 2: it will go to a non profit organization, your holiday

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Speaker 2: fans and my soup kitchen because I love a couple

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Speaker 2: of seas.

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Speaker 3: So you can get back to Rome.

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Speaker 2: Any person who won't chuck money and will be Brendan Jones.

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Speaker 2: We started with nat that's too cheap, yep.

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Speaker 3: If you've got a queue up, I'm not interested. Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's how it works.

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Speaker 2: That's how if it's a queue up to kiss Carlim

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Speaker 2: and oh yeah, well sometimes a que queue can move quickly.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes you know, and she's getting older these days,

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Speaker 3: so that's not going to be as long.

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Speaker 2: Said for very.

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Speaker 1: Us for today from Maxton love for some more jaunzy

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