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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast yesterday morning. We had some amazing

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Speaker 1: stories about nightmare addresses. You maybe you've lived at one

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Speaker 1: of these places where whenever you've to explain where you live,

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Speaker 1: you need a couple of lines going. It's not that one.

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Speaker 1: It's not that flat number. I know it says one A,

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Speaker 1: but we're actually the one beneath that. Don't press that buzzer,

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Speaker 1: they'll come out. They get fed up with this. We

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Speaker 1: had so many great calls, best one with the guy

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Speaker 1: who Micky, who lives in Paradise that doesn't even exist

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Speaker 1: on the Australia post map. We sent him a mug

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Speaker 1: yesterday and he reckons that when you gets sent a

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Speaker 1: mail it takes like four weeks to get to him.

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Speaker 1: So we sent one of our breakfast show mugs yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Let's wait and see if it turns up in June

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Speaker 1: or July. Then a middle of this about nightmare addresses,

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Speaker 1: I got an email from someone saying not a nightmare dress,

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Speaker 1: but a nightmare phone number. There was one digit difference

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Speaker 1: between me, my number, our landline and a local brass

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Speaker 1: shop called Bodacious Babes. Then we get phone numbers out

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Speaker 1: phone calls every day looking for bodacious babes. So if

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Speaker 1: this has happened to you, you have a nightmare number.

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Speaker 1: My old radio station before I came here, we were

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Speaker 1: one digit difference are the radio station number and the

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Speaker 1: number of Heathrow Airport, you know, one of the world's

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Speaker 1: largest international airports and their lost property. Obviously a busy

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Speaker 1: airport like that. Every single day we would get phone

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Speaker 1: calls about missing luggage and stuff like that, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: in the six hour we would actually, I'm a shame

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Speaker 1: so this we would take those calls off air and

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Speaker 1: just waste their time.

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Speaker 2: What I pretend that you were looking for the jacket.

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Speaker 1: Or passing them around team members and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: pretending to be supervisor. I go, hang on a minute,

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Speaker 1: my supervisor, did you see it? And then my news

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Speaker 1: reader Angel would come on and go, hello, there is

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Speaker 1: there a supervisor. Describe the suitcase again. They get all excited,

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Speaker 1: like if can you see it's brown?

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Speaker 2: Someone who's lost property on an airline recently.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes on a Monday morning when you need to fill

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Speaker 1: something and wasting innocent people's time about missing suitcases or

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Speaker 1: you've got in the world, And.

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Speaker 2: As Virgin goes into further decline. I worry even more

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Speaker 2: about getting that suit jacket back.

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Speaker 1: You ain't saying that you still haven't got it back.

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Speaker 1: I saw Branson on TV in a press commence. He

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Speaker 1: was wearing he's reduced to now wearing the lost property?

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Speaker 1: Is this hawing here with a nightmare number? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we in the newsroom in there.

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Speaker 3: Actually quite a while ago, we must have had a

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Speaker 3: similar number to a local piano tuna and we used

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Speaker 3: to get a lot of people calling and you'd say,

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Speaker 3: oh no, look sorry, I think you've got the wrong number.

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Speaker 3: We can give you the news in the weather, but

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Speaker 3: we can't help you with your ivories.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I fool So it's old people looking for piano tuners.

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Speaker 3: He used to come out and shun their pianos.

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Speaker 1: I want to thought about piano tuners. Is that really

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Speaker 1: a nine to five job? Is that something else you

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Speaker 1: do on top of the job. Is there enough business

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Speaker 1: out there tuning piano?

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Speaker 2: I don't think you're tuning full time.

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Speaker 1: You can't just be a full time tunist, a music

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Speaker 1: teacher or anything like that. The Christian O'Connell show podcast,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about nightmare phone numbers. I talk about phe

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Speaker 1: numbers A member. Years ago, I had a falling out

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Speaker 1: with our radio show engineer, the radio stations engineer, and

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Speaker 1: to get me back, he forwarded on every single text

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Speaker 1: that came in over the weekend to our old radio

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Speaker 1: station to my personal phone. Now at the time we

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Speaker 1: had a really big Saturday afternoon national all around the

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Speaker 1: UK had a couple of minion listeners footy show so

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Speaker 1: they would like have live commentary and all angry footy

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Speaker 1: fans texting in and stuff like that was hosted by

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Speaker 1: a former England player and a football legend called Ian

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Speaker 1: Wright who played for Arsenal as well. It was very

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Speaker 1: There were thousands of texts that were coming over the

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Speaker 1: weekends that show. Every single one of them came to

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Speaker 1: my phone, every single one of them. I never fell

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Speaker 1: out with that engineer ever. Get off that I learnt

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Speaker 1: my next all right, so amazing stories and about nightmare

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Speaker 1: phone numbers. Christian. I moved to North of Ringwood with

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Speaker 1: my parents in late August nineteen ninety four. We found

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Speaker 1: out that we'd inherited the phone number from the current

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Speaker 1: Swans coach John Longmi, but then he was full forward

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Speaker 1: from North Melbourne. The kangaroos. I answered the phone one

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Speaker 1: day and the following exchange occurred. Hell, that was John

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Speaker 1: there speaking. Why aren't you at training? What is this

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Speaker 1: the phone number at a time? Yes, come on horse,

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Speaker 1: stop mucking around. Why aren't you at training? Sorry I'm

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Speaker 1: not John Longmire. Who is this? Dennis Pagan who was

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Speaker 1: against the current, who was then the coach of North

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Speaker 1: Melbourne at the time. Sorry disturbed you? I forgot He's

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Speaker 1: just moved. No worries, he's probably stuck in traffic. Good

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Speaker 1: luck in the finals anyway. Is that amazing?

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Speaker 2: That was a good era for North Melbourne, so they

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Speaker 2: did do well.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is from Tish. Had a phone number that

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Speaker 1: was one digit away from a takeaway called the Roman Empire.

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Speaker 1: It was annoying. We'd get phone calls some very strong

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Speaker 1: people at midnight asking is that the Roman Empire? Leanne

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Speaker 1: of our office phone number is similar to the local

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Speaker 1: police station. And once I had an older gentleman accused

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Speaker 1: accused me of lying to him each time he ran

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Speaker 1: got angry with me. On the eighth time he called,

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Speaker 1: I answered the as the police station, just to calm

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Speaker 1: him down, took the report about how he thought the

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Speaker 1: speed camera wasn't working correctly.

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Speaker 2: What is it with people ringing wrong numbers? And then

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Speaker 2: we get angry? We always I had one call me

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Speaker 2: the other day and she said, is this Patrick?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: No, sorry, you got the wrong number? Well I dialed

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Speaker 2: oh for three to Yeah, that's my number, but I'm not.

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Speaker 1: Always don't trust us.

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Speaker 2: So it's not Patrick. No, it's not Patrick.

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Speaker 1: I think it's said to be when I've been on

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Speaker 1: the you actually go, are you sure? Are you sure

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Speaker 1: you're not Patrick? Pat? Is Patrick? There? So this isn't

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Speaker 1: Patrick's number? And then you got things straight away? You

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Speaker 1: call the same number again.

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Speaker 2: Exactly what happened. So I hung up with her and

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Speaker 2: then her call came back to her again. Oh sorry,

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Speaker 2: it's me again, not Patrick.

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Speaker 1: Zoey Humphries. One digit difference from the local Incontinents helpline,

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Speaker 1: the calls I have. All right, let's go to the

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Speaker 1: loans on now. Alison, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 4: My issue is my name is Alison and my surname

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Speaker 4: is Church. So I'm a church Many years ago living

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Speaker 4: in chin Kilda and on a few occasions I had

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Speaker 4: calls from people who were looking for a church in

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Speaker 4: a church in chin Kilda, but we're given my number instead.

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Speaker 1: This is amazing. You are a church, yes, Allison church.

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Speaker 1: Of course. It's strange, isn't it People looking for religion

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Speaker 1: or a church would actually go through the phone book

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Speaker 1: to find God. It's a very modern way. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's unbelievable. That's that's a great one. A church.

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Speaker 2: We had people call the post looking for the post office,

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Speaker 2: my surname post and they would call our home every

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Speaker 2: maybe every couple of years.

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Speaker 1: We got Yeah, I think if you've got to be well,

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Speaker 1: it's surname's post. Maybe is mister Post? I don't know. Alison,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, she call, thank you. I have

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Speaker 1: an Loaly weekend. Bill. Good morning, Bill, good morning.

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good Bill, Welcome to the show. So nightmare

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Speaker 1: phone numbers? What was yours?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, moe was a one digit number off the local pizza.

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Speaker 2: Hut, not one three, double one, double six.

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Speaker 5: Won three numbers.

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Speaker 2: That was very quick, Jack, I always remember the pizza

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Speaker 2: hut number.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So we used to get the on Friday Saturn nightnky

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Speaker 5: and Yeah, started getting sick of it. I'm going to

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Speaker 5: play along. This started taking orders, had the menu in

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Speaker 5: front of me and offering them deals, and they'd leave

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Speaker 5: you happily satisfied with the order they got in the discount, you.

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Speaker 1: Would have ruined their Friday nights. The pizza then, and

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Speaker 1: also once once you order pizza, you think it's coming

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Speaker 1: in second so your stomach starts to rearrange yourself. You

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Speaker 1: start to salivate at that pizza when it's coming. Bill,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. You cool, have a good weekend.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm on Pizza Hut now, The Christian O'Connell show podcast