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Speaker 1: Quest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much everyone who came along to spend their

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Speaker 2: Father's Day with us yesterday.

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Speaker 3: There were one hundred of you.

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Speaker 2: Something we wanted to do for Father's Day this year,

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Speaker 2: to try and make a bit more of it and

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Speaker 2: the non existent lunch as you get the Mother's Day lunch,

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Speaker 2: you know it's restaurants all over town sold out weeks

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Speaker 2: in advance, not the same come September and Father's Day.

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Speaker 3: So we want to do something different.

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Speaker 2: And thank you very much because we said a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago we can't do what we would like

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Speaker 2: to do Jack and I a host and Father's Day

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Speaker 2: lunch if we don't partner up with the venue and

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Speaker 2: a colonial brewing company in Port Melbourne, Lockey in the

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Speaker 2: team there. They stepped forward and they hosted us yesterday

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Speaker 2: and it's a lovely spot.

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Speaker 4: There was great, so much better than the scout haul

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Speaker 4: that you want to We had a very low bar

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Speaker 4: at the start. We were going to do hot dogs.

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Speaker 3: In the thank God, and some luke warm beer.

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Speaker 4: But the food was great, beer was great, and the

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Speaker 4: atmosphere in there was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty.

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Speaker 2: It was lovely to meet so many families, so many

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Speaker 2: fellow dads as well. In eighteen years of me being

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Speaker 2: a dad, my favorite of the Father's Day. It was

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Speaker 2: such a lovely atmosphere to being to be with other

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Speaker 2: dads as well. And a couple of the other dads

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Speaker 2: reminded me that for the last two years Father's Day

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Speaker 2: has been in lockdown. I think we forgot because we

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Speaker 2: don't want to go back to it. But and also

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Speaker 2: I remembered on those Sunday on Father's Day, it was back

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Speaker 2: in the dark days of the Sunday press conference from

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Speaker 2: Danny Boy, so.

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Speaker 3: It cast as horrible FuG over Father's Day.

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Speaker 5: Right, cheersdown.

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Speaker 2: Basically, it was always he ain't coming out for a

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Speaker 2: long time. Yeah, And they were like, hey, Father's Day,

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Speaker 2: all trapped in doors, stare at each other. So it

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Speaker 2: was nice actually yesterday to be able to be together.

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Speaker 2: And one thing we did, which was really really nice,

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Speaker 2: we asked the kids that were there and some grown

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Speaker 2: and say a few words about their dad, and there.

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Speaker 3: Were so many lovely ones.

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Speaker 2: We're going to play some now and in an hour's

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Speaker 2: time as well, But these are magical. Haven't listened to these?

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Speaker 6: My dad's name is carl and we call him Papa.

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Speaker 6: He was born in Italy and came to Australia sixteen

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Speaker 6: years ago for love. My dad is super special because

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Speaker 6: he's very caring. He's a very caring man and would

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Speaker 6: do anything to help anyone. He loves to go back

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Speaker 6: riding with us, and his Italian cooking is amazing. Tivol

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Speaker 6: your beer, nei Papa, which means I love you in Italian.

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Speaker 2: The two Paul dads on that one Carlo included as well.

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Speaker 2: Carlo was the one that made the amazing KNOCKI and

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Speaker 2: we spoke to a couple of weeks ago this little

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Speaker 2: lad are you about to hear now? He's only six

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Speaker 2: years of age and he spoke so well.

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Speaker 7: My dad's name is Matt and he worked for Magic Mobility,

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Speaker 7: a wheelchair company helping people that are disabled. My dad

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Speaker 7: is kind, special and funny.

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Speaker 3: And does he want to make you be kind and

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Speaker 3: funny and gents as well?

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Speaker 7: I think some times?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Well, your dad sounds like an amazing dad. He is, yep,

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Speaker 3: and what did he get today?

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Speaker 7: He got the ESK and the gold cap.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Patsy, you missed Jack and I still keeping radio

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Speaker 2: going by giving away baseball station with an embroidered gold

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Speaker 2: Nothing says the heart of Father's day more than two

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Speaker 2: local DJs giving away baseball caps in a pub. I

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Speaker 2: started in radio twenty four years doing that from Black Thunders.

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Speaker 3: What a lovely full circle. And this is I don't remember.

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Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago, when we were chatting to kids,

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Speaker 2: we heard about the wonder a dad called ray Ray.

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Speaker 2: It's not Raymond, Ray Ray who gave great cuddles. It

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Speaker 2: was lovely to meet his daughter yesterday, Cleo.

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Speaker 8: My dad's name is Raymond. He is a road train driver.

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Speaker 8: Every day when I come home from school, he gives

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Speaker 8: me big hards because he knows how hard I work.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I bet you work really hard.

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Speaker 8: And he has a big heart. He likes telling jokes,

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Speaker 8: well we're watching movies from the ads, jokes that we

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Speaker 2: What it is to be dad, the dud jokes. And

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Speaker 2: then there was one girl in particular. It wasn't a

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Speaker 2: competition or anything, but she spoke really well. Her dad

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Speaker 2: is a lovely guy called Brian. The family has been

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Speaker 2: through so much he raised the two kids and an

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Speaker 2: amazing dad. But listen to this. Perhaps you'll love this.

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Speaker 2: It blew us all away in the day. This is

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Speaker 2: Brighton's daughter Mikayla.

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Speaker 3: Dad.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to know how loved and appreciated you are.

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Speaker 1: I'm so incredibly proud of you, and you're the strongest,

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Speaker 1: most hard working man.

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Speaker 3: I've ever met.

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Speaker 1: You have a heart of gold and I feel so

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Speaker 1: lucky that I was blessed to have you as my dad.

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Speaker 1: You're always the one that I look up to and

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Speaker 1: you never gave up on me. You're the reason that

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Speaker 1: I am who I am today and I couldn't ask

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Speaker 1: for anything more. I've recently moved out and I miss

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Speaker 1: giving you a hug at the end of every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the love and support that you give.

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Speaker 1: We have an incredibly special bond and I just want

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Speaker 1: to thank you for being you love your.

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Speaker 3: Dad, An you believe that, Patty. It was a lovely

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Speaker 3: day yesterday, so much Sharon. That was Dad.

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Speaker 2: Adrian by the way, but thank you very much. You're

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Speaker 2: playing more these beautiful messages from the kids yesterday our

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Speaker 2: Father's Day lunch. Thanks to everyone aking. This is the

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Speaker 2: Christian o'connells Show podcast. This is something we will definitely

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Speaker 2: do again. We absolutely loved it. It was a really

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Speaker 2: lovely we keep saying this. It was humbling, it was magical.

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Speaker 2: It was nice to be in a room and actually

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Speaker 2: celebrate our families, the dads, the kids. There were some

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Speaker 2: granddads there as well. We met granddad Harry's got four grandkids.

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Speaker 2: It was a detective Vic Bolice for thirty seven years,

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Speaker 2: an amazing guy. I met so many lovely fellow dads.

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Speaker 2: It was a lovely atmosphere yesterday, and all the magical

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Speaker 2: things was We invited all the kids, if they want

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Speaker 2: to come up and in front of everyone.

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Speaker 3: Just tell us a few words about their dad.

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Speaker 2: Have a listened to these. Here are some of them

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Speaker 2: that we recorded. First of all, this is a first

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Speaker 2: kid up. It was this little lad Mason.

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Speaker 5: My dad is an engineer. His name's Rob. He fixes

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Speaker 5: everything for us. Like a couple weeks ago, my mom's

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Speaker 5: breaks weren't working and he fixed that.

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Speaker 3: I bet I bet he did. Yeah.

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Speaker 9: We call him Bob the Builder because he fixes everything.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's great. He sounds like an awesome dad.

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Speaker 2: You've got big Family's about fifteen of you aren't they

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Speaker 3: Yeah, funny kid.

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Speaker 4: I spoke to Rob at the end of the lunch.

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Speaker 4: He said, by the way Mason said, I was an engineer.

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Speaker 4: I'm not an engineer.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what we thought about doing this as

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Speaker 2: a phone in one day? Tell us what your dad

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Speaker 2: does for a living? Because whatever. My daughter's friends have

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Speaker 2: come around to make a bit small talk of going,

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Speaker 2: you know, what are your moum and dad do? And

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Speaker 2: they they know.

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Speaker 3: What their mom does. They never know what the dad doesn't.

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Speaker 3: I think he does something for one of the football clothes.

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Speaker 6: You're sixteen.

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Speaker 2: You've never shown it any kind of interest about what

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Speaker 2: dad does. Maybe tomorrow caught us up. What do you

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Speaker 2: think your dad does? Anyway, let's go back to the kids.

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Speaker 2: This is Oscar.

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Speaker 9: My dad's name is Zoch. He's over there, my dad.

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Speaker 9: He tells us these stories about a caveman called Grog

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Speaker 9: who's invents different things. Me and my sister really like

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Speaker 9: listening to those, And even when it's late, Dad sometimes

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Speaker 2: And then this is not a little kid, but a

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Speaker 2: grown up kid, Ben, who said, such a lovely thing.

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Speaker 10: I just want to acknowledge my dad. I'm an older child.

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Speaker 10: He sacrificed a lot. He's suffered in silence for a

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Speaker 10: very long time. He's done what he's had to do

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Speaker 10: now as a father, as myself, I just want him

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Speaker 10: to know we appreciate it. There's a lot of gratitude

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Speaker 10: behind it. And now you've succeeded being a father. I

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Speaker 10: hope you enjoy being a grandfather.

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Speaker 3: Oh beautiful. I need to tell me about that guy Shane.

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Speaker 3: Do you speak to him?

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Speaker 2: He's a lovely, right, very good looking granddad. He didn't

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Speaker 2: know the kind of person could get some modeling work

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Speaker 2: for country runts. I said to you, I might be

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Speaker 2: your age and I might pimp you out. He didn't

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Speaker 2: look It was a very ripped jack dad.

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Speaker 3: Do you shake his hand?

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Speaker 4: And a full head of that silver fox.

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Speaker 3: It was a beautiful man.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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