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Speaker 1: Yesterday, as thousands gathered on the Espanat to commemorate Remembrance Day,

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Speaker 1: the Blue Bombers were apparently out finding Territorians. I've been

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Speaker 1: contacted by a number of people saying that they were

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Speaker 1: stung convat scarlets. The Lord Mayor joins me in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to Yukon, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Katy.

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Speaker 3: I have to tell you it was so hot yesterday.

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Speaker 3: It was yeah, we're always sitting there. I was melting,

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Speaker 3: but I was so There were quite a few empty

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Speaker 3: But it was so pleased to see so many people

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Speaker 3: be there. It's a very big event, as they supposed

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Speaker 3: to be the war that end all wars, and here

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Speaker 3: we are now we have the Ukraine War and we've

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Speaker 3: got a couple of other flashing points around the world,

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Speaker 3: Gaza and everything else.

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Speaker 2: It's sad.

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Speaker 3: It's sad we haven't learned our lessons. Bag For us Australians,

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Speaker 3: it was a great event and we have to remember it.

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Speaker 3: We have lost one hundred thousand soldiers throughout the years

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Speaker 3: in various theaters of war and we have to remember them.

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Speaker 2: These people died for us, for us.

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Speaker 3: We have the luxury to speak freely on radio like

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Speaker 3: I do now with you. For heavy democratic government, we

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Speaker 3: have to remember them lest we forget.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. I can conn parking fines on Remembrance Day.

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Speaker 3: It's an operation matter, and I don't know why it

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Speaker 3: happened and where it happened. I can't comment on that one. Yes, well, yes,

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Speaker 3: but I'm surprised because the event it only went for

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Speaker 3: half an hour. I don't know more about it, and

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Speaker 3: I will find out what happened. But Katie, I've been

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Speaker 3: fine too. I thought I pressed the button, I didn't,

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Speaker 3: and when I came back to my car found the ticket. Hello,

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Speaker 3: and I paid. But that's the year before Spial not

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Speaker 3: elected member or the CEO. The CEO had got a

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Speaker 3: fine and created We're exactly like you are. I just

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Speaker 3: simply have to make sure that I do the right

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Speaker 3: thing when I'm parking somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Oh I mean, is that really the message to the

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Speaker 1: people that got fined yesterday? Would they may bee parked

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Speaker 3: Wrong sport or I don't know about This is the

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Speaker 3: year before. I'm surprised because only half an hour yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So it's started at ten o'clock to eleven it's a

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Speaker 3: two hour parking, so I don't know what happened there.

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Speaker 2: I can't give you.

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Speaker 1: Any more con you and I spoke just last week

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Speaker 1: about these two events for Cyclone Tracy, for the well,

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Speaker 1: for the sculpture, the unveiling of the sculpture. Is the

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Speaker 1: event or November twenty nine still happening.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is.

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Speaker 3: The artist would be up here, the sculpture will be unveiled,

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Speaker 3: and the color will be there, the blue color that

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Speaker 3: symbolize resilience and also the blue color the symbolarity Indigenous

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Speaker 3: people of the original the Chia people.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're short to other people.

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Speaker 3: As I did before, it's not going to be one

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Speaker 3: and time. It's going to be a small event, limited

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Speaker 2: A work site.

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Speaker 1: How many are you going?

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Speaker 3: We've been invited about one hundred people, I believe, and

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Speaker 3: there I thinks less than that will come for various reasons.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how many of them are Cyclone Tracy survivors?

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Speaker 2: Quite a few just front all my mind.

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Speaker 3: I know there will be at least four three from

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Speaker 3: the councils that they're in the council already, and there

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Speaker 3: will be more from the from the committee.

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Speaker 2: There will be an number of other people that actually had.

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Speaker 3: A significant role to play during cyclon tracing, like salvation

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Speaker 3: Army organization representatives, defense forces and things like that. Everybody

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Speaker 3: who's going to go there we have an association with

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Speaker 1: Is it still a bit of a kick in the

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Speaker 1: guards to those survivors? I mean, if there's one hundred

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Speaker 2: Well there'll be more. I'm telling you about the ones.

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Speaker 3: I know. I haven't seen the list, but as I

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Speaker 3: year before, City of down is talking to the representatives

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Speaker 3: or the survivor cycling tracy that Richard Crashwick is heading.

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Speaker 3: We have constant communication with them. Richard was in our committee.

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Speaker 3: Richard and ourselves and their committee work very closely to

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Speaker 3: actually establish the memorial for cycling trades. The proper memorial

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Speaker 3: will be put in this point. Look, there are a

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Speaker 1: Con someone's just missing through and saying who's coming. Con

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Speaker 1: The word on the street is the Prime Minister's going

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Speaker 3: Well, I can't confirm that one because we're negotiating with

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Speaker 3: can't say if federal politicians come to down.

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Speaker 1: Do you know if he's going to come for the

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Speaker 1: actual event on you know, on Christmas morning as well?

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Speaker 3: I doubt very much. Look, let's be fair, guys. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's got a family, It's Christmas Day. How would you

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Speaker 3: like if your job rings you and says you.

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Speaker 2: Have to be there on Christmas Day? You won't feel

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Speaker 3: And I'm a human being and I've got a family,

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Speaker 3: and I had a family and one of the complaints

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Speaker 3: I got sometimes from my kids is you're.

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Speaker 2: Not here on important days.

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Speaker 3: And that really, really you have to remember that does

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Speaker 3: matter what his position is. He is a family man,

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Speaker 3: he's got a family, and here's a human being.

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Speaker 2: Please give him some sluck.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how much the event on the twenty

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Speaker 2: Well, as I said to you before, it's not going

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Speaker 3: It's going just to be a very small event meeting

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Speaker 3: the artist and have a look at the memorial.

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Speaker 2: So I don't need the figures.

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Speaker 3: But if you don't have food, if you don't have

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Speaker 3: alcohol and things like that, it's not going.

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Speaker 2: To cost much.

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Speaker 1: So there's not going to be any of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no.

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Speaker 3: The big events, as I said you before, the event

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Speaker 3: the Ski Club that's organized by us. I believe there's

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Speaker 2: I can't give you deters.

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Speaker 1: Both found out about that. I mean, has the Council

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Speaker 3: No, not at all. And before let's start at the beginning.

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Speaker 3: We have a committee about sarcland traces. The committee consists

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Speaker 1: Are you the chair of a die well?

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Speaker 3: In all committees in the council hairs, I am the

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Speaker 1: Mean, I suppose that you know. The question with that

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Speaker 1: know the bombing of Darwen or whatever. A committee it

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Speaker 1: might be does the buck stop with you then rather

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Speaker 3: That you know. There's one thing, the committee make a recommendation.

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Speaker 3: The recommendation goes to council. The decision the country is

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Speaker 3: not made by the mayor. The mayor and the nother

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Speaker 3: territory does not have executive powers. It's made by the

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Speaker 3: thirteen elected members. I'm the spokesperson of the of the

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Speaker 3: of the Council, and as always I get to blame

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Speaker 3: for everything because people see me. The reality is behind me.

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Speaker 3: There are another twelve elected members. Now all of it,

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Speaker 3: whatever is happening for syclond Tracy is being voted by

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Speaker 3: the thirteen elected members, not one vote against it, not

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Speaker 3: one broader decision motion. So the Coal Council is united

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Speaker 3: behind it and we believe. And as you before, what do.

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Speaker 2: I deal with?

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Speaker 1: So they did all votes for the event happening on

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Speaker 1: the twenty ninethe, Well we.

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Speaker 3: All agree with that one and the thirtieth. But again,

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Speaker 3: as before, we've got we have a committee for trees.

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Speaker 3: In the committee, we've got people that actually support trees

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Speaker 3: and pins and others that don't want And then you

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Speaker 3: see the public debate in the media, in the social media,

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Speaker 2: You can't everybody.

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Speaker 1: You're never going to please anybody everybody. But the difficulty

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Speaker 1: That they are really really upset.

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Speaker 2: And I accept that one.

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Speaker 3: And I've got many many friends that actually either they

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Speaker 2: Their parents were here. You before.

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Speaker 3: When we try to organize something, we're trying to find

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Speaker 3: these survivors of cyclon tration in corporated. Now there are

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Speaker 3: other groups that they're not part of this one. But

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Speaker 1: I want to move along just really quickly because we're

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Speaker 1: you about about the Christmas pageant. It's on this Saturdays, No, and.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to miss it because I've been lying in

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Speaker 3: bed with it. Well, it will be done by then,

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Speaker 3: and there's no way. I'd love to be there because

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Speaker 3: had seven thousand people. This year I expect more. I

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Speaker 3: believe we've got about fifty floats that they're going through

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Speaker 3: eleven schools. They Festivit start four thirty in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: The pageant will start five thirty pm and they will

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Speaker 3: be live entertainment and then the Deputy Lord Mayo some

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Speaker 3: Western we like the Christmas Tree at seven pm. And

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Speaker 3: thanks I very much for stepping in, But as do you.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I can't be there. I have to have the operation.

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Speaker 3: I put it bluntly. Climbing the stairs to come up

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Speaker 1: Someone's got to tell you we've got to lift here

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 3: When nobody told me, and you know what, goodness, driving

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Speaker 2: I was going to your.

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Speaker 1: Own studio that before in the morning.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to be fantastic. And if you go

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Speaker 3: around town, especially in the Entry Park, you will see.

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Speaker 3: Now we start putting decorations in the mall, there's a

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Speaker 3: beautiful light tunnel, absolutely fantastic. I saw people taking photos there,

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Speaker 3: so I'm going to go with my crutches to.

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Speaker 2: Take a photo that one to remember. Spectacular Christmas to

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Speaker 2: that twenty.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four combat Scarlus. We are gonna have to live,

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Speaker 1: but they're really good to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you in the next few we's probably

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Speaker 2: over the phone.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Thanks on