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Speaker 1: Now, there is always plenty to discuss in this studio.

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Speaker 1: But yesterday I got a message that came through and

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Speaker 1: it said, Katie, I just wanted to let you know

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Speaker 1: that we've got girls heading across to Japan to play

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Speaker 1: rugby union and it's a fantastic achievement and you know,

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Speaker 1: are well done to everybody involved. And I thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: well I read that message, I thought, well, why don't

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Speaker 1: we get these girls in the studio because I want

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Speaker 1: to find out a little bit more about how they

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Speaker 1: got selected, who they're going to be playing and all

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Speaker 1: the good stuff. And I'm pleased to say that some

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Speaker 1: of them join me in the studio right now. So

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Speaker 1: from Palmerston Rugby Union Club, I've got Megan Barker and

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Speaker 1: Cassidy Cassidy White, Good morning to both of you, goodring girls.

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Speaker 1: And then I have got Emma Healey from the Darwin Dragons.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Emma. It's so great to have all of

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Speaker 1: you in the studio. And I will also say that

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Speaker 1: I've got the Palmeston Rugby Union Clubs well president as well,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Brandt. Jacob will how are you this morning? Mate?

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Speaker 1: Great to have you in the studio as well, now, girls,

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Speaker 1: first off, tell me which age group are you? What? Well,

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Speaker 1: how old are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm sixteen? And the other girl who's not here right now,

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Speaker 2: she's on a school camp, Peyton.

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Speaker 1: So that's Peyton. So Peyton's also selected, but she obviously

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Speaker 1: is on a school camp. So you guys are sixteen?

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Speaker 1: Now what about you two?

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Speaker 3: Eighteen?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're both both eighteen, so you're heading across. How

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Speaker 1: did you get selected to go across to play in Japan?

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Speaker 4: Well, we did last year. We did the Brisbane Pacific

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Speaker 4: Youth Festival YEP, with like all Nations and the same

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Speaker 4: United Yeah Nations, United North Queensland. We first joined up

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Speaker 4: with them because they reached out to us and then

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Speaker 4: we did that comp and so they've kind of reached

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Speaker 4: out again this year to do another comp, but instead

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Speaker 4: in Japan.

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Speaker 1: How cool. So you must have played well, like you

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Speaker 1: obviously played fantastically then to get selected to go across

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Speaker 1: and play in Japan. Is this like the first time

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Speaker 1: for some of you that you're going overseas? Yeah? Yeah

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Speaker 1: for me it is a rugby year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah for rugby yea.

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Speaker 1: How exciting? So who, like, who are you actually going

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Speaker 1: to be playing for? Are you playing for Australia or

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Speaker 1: is it like a regional Australia team.

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Speaker 2: We're playing for a team called Nations United North Queensland.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: And the black founder, I guess of the club. She's

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Speaker 2: a mum of a lot of girls. She actually got

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Speaker 2: me inter rugby, like originally yeah, and she's like, doesn't

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Speaker 2: like how there's not a lot for girls, so especially

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Speaker 2: in the top end area like North Queensland and Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: So she's really trying to boost rugby up here.

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Speaker 1: How awesome. I love like I you know, I speak

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Speaker 1: about this often. I love seeing young people do good stuff,

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Speaker 1: but I love seeing young women then playing sports that

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Speaker 1: sometimes people may not actually expect that you're playing. Now,

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Speaker 1: what position do each of you play in rugby union?

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Speaker 4: For when we go over there, I'll be playing flanker,

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Speaker 4: hooker and I think lock.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, so pretty tough, pretty physical. What about you, Megan,

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Speaker 1: I've got.

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Speaker 3: Lock and flanker down back. Could you anywhere in that forward?

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Speaker 1: You give it all a crack? What about you, Emma?

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Speaker 2: I'll be playing flanker, lock and center.

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Speaker 1: Wow, So you girls are physical like you are going

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Speaker 1: to be having a real crack. How much do you

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Speaker 1: love playing rugby union? But how exciting is it to

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Speaker 1: get an opportunity like going overseas to play?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 4: I really enjoyed, like last year's and also all the

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Speaker 4: just like the NT trips for the union. Yeah, and

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Speaker 4: I've been playing for a long time, So how long

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Speaker 4: you've been playing? Maybe since I think under fives or

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Speaker 1: Yeah, really excited. Do you come from a rugby union family?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you just somehow got involved.

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Speaker 4: We kind of follow it, but I think my mum

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Speaker 4: just put me and my brother down for it when

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Speaker 4: we were young, and we just stuck with it.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I love that. And now look at you

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Speaker 1: going over like going overseas, that's so cool. And what

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Speaker 1: about you meeg And I know I've interviewed you before

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Speaker 1: before the Grand Final last year. You obviously love your

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Speaker 1: out like you're juggling that as well with school obviously.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm keen. I'm like super excited for it, Like

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Speaker 3: it's just an opportunity that I didn't think i'd get.

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Speaker 3: But it's pretty cool, especially being under the coach. We

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Speaker 3: have because she was she captain Samoa back in the nineties,

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Speaker 3: so she's like played in the World Cup. She's got

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Speaker 3: a lot of knowledge and I'm keen to learn that.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I want to learn is from her

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Speaker 3: and just how she would play and how she wants

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Speaker 3: me to play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful. Yeah, I reckon, it'll be so exciting.

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Speaker 1: And what about you, Emma, you must be pumped to

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Speaker 1: me going away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm obviously part of the younger groups. We're

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Speaker 2: not only going to learn from the older girls, but

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Speaker 2: like seeing how the university's are over there play yep,

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Speaker 2: and then knowing so like when I get older, when

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Speaker 2: I start moving forward with it, like the opportunities that

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Speaker 2: could open up for me.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So when do you all head off?

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Speaker 3: The seventeenth, sixteenth sixteen to Cans and the seventeenth we're

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Speaker 3: heading over to Japan.

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Speaker 1: How awesome? How long are you there for? And do

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Speaker 1: you know how many games you're going to be playing?

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Speaker 3: We have twelve days we're there. We got three games

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Speaker 3: so eating girls aversing the university teams, while our sixteens

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Speaker 3: versing the high schools that are attached.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: How good? Now, tell me, has it taken a heap

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Speaker 1: of fundraising because I know that going overseas to play

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Speaker 1: any sport or going into stage even is so expensive,

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of the time to try and

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Speaker 1: raise the money to go away. How has that been going.

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Speaker 1: Have you been doing some fundraising? Yeah, we've done.

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Speaker 4: I think we've got a payton sip and we've also

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Speaker 4: I think on Saturday, this coming Saturday, we've got a

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Speaker 4: car wash at FX Fuel in Palmiston. Yeah, so we'll

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Speaker 4: be all down there doing that.

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Speaker 3: Twenty bucks a car wash.

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Speaker 4: Love us.

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Speaker 1: No, I was gonna say, encourage.

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Speaker 3: It gets done really well. We did it last weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so twenty bucks. What day, Saturday? Saturday? What time

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Speaker 1: do people need to be there? Nine till one, nine

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Speaker 1: till one. Alright, I'll try and get out there. I

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Speaker 1: reckon and get my car washed. That's fantastic, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's awesome that you ladies are getting the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to go overseas and play rugby union at that level,

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Speaker 1: and you know the experience that you get from it,

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Speaker 1: both on and off the field is just wonderful to see.

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Speaker 1: And then all that fundraising, you know, everything that you

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Speaker 1: do in the lead up. It's just such a great

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Speaker 1: life experience, such a wonderful experience. Now do you have

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Speaker 1: like anywhere else If people can't get out there to

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Speaker 1: get their car washed, is there any other way that

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Speaker 1: they can potentially support you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we are still looking for black sponsors and stuff.

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Speaker 2: But also we've got a painting set.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So a lady like my mum's friend, she's coming up.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna like bring a bunch of canvases. It's fifty

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Speaker 2: dollars ahead, yep. And that involves you paint an abstract

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Speaker 2: sunset I think. And it involves drinks for the night

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Speaker 2: and a security board.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful, good stuff. So if they is this, they

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Speaker 1: can probably jump on the club's Facebook page, do you

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Speaker 1: reckon and to get that info Jacob.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be sharing everything.

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Speaker 3: If anybody wants to donate anything or get involved, then

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Speaker 3: absolutely reach out to us and we we can head

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Speaker 3: it off to the right people.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, how good girls. Congratulations on the fact that

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Speaker 1: you're going over to Japan to play and being selected,

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Speaker 1: I reckon, it's just wonderful. Hope you have the best time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: It has been wonderful to talk to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming in and telling me more about it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, good on your girls. Thank you,