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Speaker 1: Quest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 3: Situation, I think we've all been in many times when

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Speaker 3: you're just too embarrassed to say anything. You don't want

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Speaker 3: to cause a scene, you don't want to look stupid,

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Speaker 3: so you will actually suffer. Years ago, when I think

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Speaker 3: it was only like twenty four to twenty five, and

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Speaker 3: just before I got into radio, I had a sales

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Speaker 3: job in London and I was taking somebody out who

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Speaker 3: was in charge of all the marketing spend for Europe's

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Speaker 3: largest supermarket chain, and it was like a big deal.

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Speaker 3: It was like the final thing was this lunch with

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Speaker 3: this guy and he was like in his sixties and

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Speaker 3: it was the first time I've ever been to a

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Speaker 3: fancy restaurant. It was in London's Covent Garden on a Friday.

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Speaker 3: I got the really this guy walks in right and

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Speaker 3: he uses money and power. He looked exactly like you No,

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Speaker 3: Bill Nighy in Love Actually Billy Mack. I know it's

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Speaker 3: Billy Mack. He just sort of sauntered in, you know,

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Speaker 3: like a rock star, and straight away it was obviously

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Speaker 3: he lived in this world. The manager came beating over

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Speaker 3: saw it was him doing with me. We got upgraded

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Speaker 3: to like a better table. Straight away. I'm starting to

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Speaker 3: feel really nervous. We sit down and there's like cutlery.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know his inside out.

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Speaker 1: What do we need? What he's knights and forks for?

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Speaker 3: He looks at the menu like he doesn't even really

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Speaker 3: really need to look at it, and he just goes

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Speaker 3: steak tartar. Now, state tatar is a French delicacy, and

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Speaker 3: this was a Ponzi French restaurant to bond with him.

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Speaker 3: I went me too, and he looked at me and

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Speaker 3: he went, ah, very unusual, a steak tartar man and

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Speaker 3: ingratiating myself straight away.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know what i'd order. I just was in

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Speaker 1: lovely steak on a Friday, that'd be nice with some chips.

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Speaker 1: What turned up? You do? You guys know what state

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Speaker 1: tatar is.

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Speaker 3: It's it's raw minced beef with an egg, a raw

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Speaker 3: egg cracked on top and some onion chopped in it.

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Speaker 1: It's raw. They don't do anything to it. It's raw.

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Speaker 1: I look at it. I'm like, oh God, there's no

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Speaker 1: way I can say not that.

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Speaker 3: I can't go no, I can't even have a running egg,

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Speaker 3: so I can't say anything. I'm too embarrassed, not in

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Speaker 3: front of this guy. Oh, Billy Matt, there's this no way.

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Speaker 3: So we tuck in and he goes, it's very unusual

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Speaker 3: to meet somebody else, Like, why we're gonna do?

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Speaker 1: He's like, you enjoying it?

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Speaker 2: This?

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Speaker 1: How good is this? How good is steak? Uncooked? I

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Speaker 1: eat the whole thing right, It's foul. I cannot believe

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Speaker 1: in it.

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Speaker 3: It's wet, it's raw, it's bloody, and I'm like, this

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Speaker 3: is awful. Afterwards, he goes, you know, what's Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to go back to your first Why

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Speaker 3: don't we go for knock on somewhere? And I go, oh,

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Speaker 3: because all I'm starting to feel is I need to

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Speaker 3: go to toilet. I don't need I can't go to

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Speaker 3: a path. Right, there'll be an accident. Anyone want to

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Speaker 3: do a business with me? I go, I just I'll

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Speaker 3: set up the bill and you you you know, I

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Speaker 3: literally paid for the bill and sprinted into the toilets

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Speaker 3: and one's.

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Speaker 1: Kicking when the cubicle doors open. It's like that, seeming

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Speaker 1: dumb and dumber. It was awful.

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Speaker 3: I was just too embarrassed to say anything at the time.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's take some of your stories, Lisa.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: All right, what's your story about too embarrassed to say

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Speaker 1: anything at the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, anyway, so we were it was myself and husband.

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Speaker 2: We were living in Russia about twenty odd years ago,

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Speaker 2: and we had organized with we were sort of new

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Speaker 2: to the expat world, and we'd organized this big progressive

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Speaker 2: dinner and we were on the main meal.

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Speaker 3: So is this where people bring the different like the

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Speaker 3: star to the main and the dessert exactly?

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Speaker 2: So we were on main people's houses, don't you That's right. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so some of the hosts, you know, the starters, and

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Speaker 2: then you go on and on. I think we were

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Speaker 2: on mains. And anyway, I was very young. I just

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Speaker 2: didn't cook. I was hopeless. So we'd sort of talked

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Speaker 2: it up about and we were on mains. Anyway. We'd

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Speaker 2: gone out that day to get groceries and we were

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Speaker 2: living in the back end of Russia, so there was

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Speaker 2: very little choice and we ended up just in the

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Speaker 2: flustered buying, buying out the whole supermarket, not knowing what

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Speaker 2: to cook, got home, and I was just in tears

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Speaker 2: because we had no clue on what to buy, what

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Speaker 2: to make. So anyway, there was about half an hour

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Speaker 2: before and my husband saying, look, just give them bag beans.

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Speaker 2: I can't like gus.

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Speaker 1: It down.

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Speaker 2: So we ended up just turning out all the lights

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Speaker 2: and hiding under the tables and pretending we were.

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Speaker 3: We're going to come back to this tomorrow, pretending not

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Speaker 3: to be in as were my favorite things in the world.

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Speaker 3: I even heard one of my wife's friends once go, Christian,

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Speaker 3: I think you're in there.

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Speaker 1: I can't come out now. Oh my god, I can't.

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Speaker 1: I still stayed hiding.

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Speaker 2: We literally had under our dining table and turned all

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Speaker 2: the lights up and became of the thread times because

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Speaker 2: I had no clue what to cook.

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Speaker 1: I done the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, please, world, move on, Move on for the scene

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Speaker 3: Lisa with send your Price.

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Speaker 1: That's a great story. Thanks for calling.

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