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Speaker 1: Quest.

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

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Speaker 1: This country is famous around the world for very big things.

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Speaker 1: We've done some research. There have been a couple of

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Speaker 1: big things that never quite got off the ground, and

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Speaker 1: need off the ground and up into the air. Rip

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Speaker 1: the Big Chris when they tried to be a giant

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Speaker 1: Chris hemsworths out of marble of course, Greek God.

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Speaker 3: Remember we talked to the town mayor, yes, and he

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Speaker 3: was all about it, but he didn't even know what

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Speaker 3: he wanted to build it out of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Five years on, construction still yet to have started. In

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Queenstontown Offer King Roy launched a foulder tempt

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Speaker 1: to build the Big Nut. Do you want to be

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Speaker 1: known as the home of the big nuts? Townsfolk were

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Speaker 1: jealous of their rival city of Chinchilla had a big melon.

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Speaker 1: What we need is a big nut nut versus melon.

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Speaker 1: My money's on the nuts. The big bin Chicken in Bura,

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Speaker 1: thousands of signataries but never getting off the ground up

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Speaker 1: into the air. Hopefully the Koko Bar of Donald isn't another.

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Speaker 3: Fankooka bar is going to make him.

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Speaker 1: But don't think of this because this country is famous

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Speaker 1: for these big things. If there was a Mount Rushmore,

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Speaker 1: a giant, a really big, bigger Mount Rushmore here in

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Speaker 1: Australia and it's only got the four best big things

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Speaker 1: that are around this country. What has to go on there? Right,

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Speaker 1: make your case, state your case. But just one big

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Speaker 1: thing that you love would have to go on the

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Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of Australia's big thing. But just a Kitlyn.

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Speaker 1: What do you want to make the case for.

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Speaker 2: It has to be the big banana, without a doubt,

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Speaker 2: the coolest big thing in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Now why is it the coolest big thing in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Just a giant banana?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's one. It's positioned perfectly for everyone that goes

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Speaker 2: through Coffs Harbor. Right so when you drive.

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Speaker 1: Through, yeah, as you're leading Coughs Harbor.

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Speaker 2: No no, no, it's not as you're going north towards Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: Right. Perfect position is because if it was east, yeah,

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Speaker 1: not the same.

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Speaker 3: I just hate to detour somewhere in Coffs Harbor. Again,

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Speaker 3: we're losing time here.

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Speaker 1: I just stuck in the three way system of coss Harbor.

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Speaker 2: Thank god, we see the big banana, the best thing

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Speaker 2: about it is you can walk through the Big Banana,

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Speaker 2: which is epic.

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Speaker 1: And again that's the best thing about it. You can

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Speaker 1: walk through it.

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Speaker 2: No, but also it has a toboggan. Well at least

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Speaker 2: it you can get frozen bananas dipped in chocolate, which

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Speaker 2: is the best thing for a kid. So we used

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Speaker 2: to go and visit it every year when I went away,

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Speaker 2: we used to stay more Googlega.

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Speaker 1: Yep, you should go and visit every year. Kids, it's

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Speaker 1: that time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we walk through and Dad, you won't have to detail.

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Speaker 1: Can't walk through it again.

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Speaker 2: I believe it was also one of the first big

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Speaker 2: things in Australia, so it was born out in like

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Speaker 2: sixty four, I believe.

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Speaker 3: I do agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it should go on the

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Speaker 1: Mount Rush. It was the first at the top, the top,

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Speaker 1: right at the top, and again you walk through this

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Speaker 1: Mount rushmore but you go through the banana first. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you buy those frozen bananas. Yeah, Cainan, genuinely, it's

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Speaker 1: so insight like it's Christmas Day.

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Speaker 2: I'm so proud of the Big Banana. Like I can't

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Speaker 2: express to you how great it was as a kid.

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Speaker 2: It was the best thing we ever did. We were

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Speaker 2: like the big Banana. We got photos in front of

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Speaker 2: it every year. I'll send a photo to you guys.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 1: I want to see you looking happy in front of

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Speaker 1: the big banana. All right, lines are open now, so

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Speaker 1: the big Banana. We're agreed. Just going on the Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 1: Very big things in Australia. What else is up there

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Speaker 1: with it? Like a kid on Christmas Day, I guess

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Speaker 1: you go and play with your remote control car.

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Speaker 4: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the best big things of Australia. What

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Speaker 1: are the best to go on our Mount Rushmore? Christian

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Speaker 1: are talking about the ones that aren't here anymore? Please,

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Speaker 1: can we have a moment of silence for the giant

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Speaker 1: earthworm in Victoria? Where was rip the giant earthworm? It

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Speaker 1: got demolished a few years ago. If you demolished a

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Speaker 1: big thing, you need to replace it. I should think

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Speaker 1: with a bigger thing whatever it is? All right, So, Patsy,

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Speaker 1: what would you have up on the it's hard.

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Speaker 5: I'd go the big giant Koala at Dad's Will's Bridge.

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Speaker 5: That's nice, go in his belly and go up the

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Speaker 5: stairs and he's got eyes like he's on crack. He

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Speaker 5: looks a bit sort of startled, doesn't he. The other

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Speaker 5: one is the.

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Speaker 1: Massive we've got nothing. What about Kelly.

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Speaker 5: At Glenn Rowan in my old romping ground. He's standing

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Speaker 5: between his legs.

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Speaker 4: Take now, if you're thinking about the big banana, don't

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Speaker 4: bother You may as well just drive past, take a

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Speaker 4: photo and just keep going. If you wanted to see something,

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Speaker 4: you could see the rocking Horse in Giant Rasking Horse

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Speaker 4: in South Australia. But the best of all would be

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Speaker 4: the giant Globster in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Now that is that's great. I've got photos of my

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Speaker 1: kids under that. They were excited. The giant Lobster is great.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was excellent.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know you've been to the Giant Lobster too,

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Speaker 3: because he's got a dark place in our broadcasting history.

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Speaker 3: On Hamish and Andy, why what happened? We tried to

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Speaker 3: raise money for the lobster when it looked like it

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Speaker 3: might have to get demolished because they couldn't repaint it

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Speaker 3: or something. Cost twenty grand to keep him up keep

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Speaker 3: for the lobster. So we did a drive and like

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Speaker 3: everyone raised money for the lobb Mind.

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Speaker 1: This is Hamishani, so his biggest, most successful show ever.

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Speaker 3: No one, you know, poultry amounts. No one really wanted

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Speaker 3: to put it in their own hardened the Lobster. So

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Speaker 3: then we had to do and I'm embarrassed to say

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Speaker 3: this the worst thing we've ever done, probably on the show.

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Speaker 3: The Bank of South Australia said, look, we'll come in

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Speaker 3: and we'll give you the twenty grand, but you have

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Speaker 3: to interview our mascot on air. So we had to

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Speaker 3: interview a magpie that's not Judge Jack.

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Speaker 1: You never know what's around the corner. I will save

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Speaker 1: my laughter. We had to interviewer on air.

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Speaker 3: Magpie called the piping shrike on.

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Speaker 1: It pushing all the banks. Oh well, if you see

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Speaker 1: the giant lobster and look at the paint, how good

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Speaker 1: it is. You know that handy had to pay the

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Speaker 1: piper for that, Steve, what else has to go on

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Speaker 1: to me? The Mount rushmore?

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Speaker 7: Then okay, don't worry about your big lobsters and bananas

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Speaker 7: at Clyde in Melbourne. How they've got my giant wheelbarrow

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Speaker 7: and let me sit to you. It is dead enormous.

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Speaker 7: It would be between five and ten meters high.

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Speaker 1: It's not that big.

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Speaker 7: Have you seen the size of a normal wheelbarrow?

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Speaker 1: He's got listen, he's got proportion. Okay, we understand a

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Speaker 1: normal wheelbrow, so let's not fold out over the mega wheelbarrow.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you that it's bigger than a normal wheelbarrow,

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Speaker 3: but we're talking about the banana or the clod which

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Speaker 3: has a lot in it you can walk.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, give me a spell. Every year we today we

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Speaker 7: go to the Clyde Cricket Cricket Club and every one

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Speaker 7: of us we drive past his wheelbarrow and the people

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Speaker 7: haven't reen it before. They're absolutely gobsmack.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Steve, it's a strong case collect what big

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Speaker 1: things you go on our Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 6: Definitely the Big Pineapple in Nambolle, Queensland. It's been there

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Speaker 6: for years and years. I dispute whether it was banana

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Speaker 6: cane first, but it's also famous for another reason. Lady

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Speaker 6: Die and Charles came out to tour the Big Pineapple

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Speaker 6: and I was fortunate enough to take the day off

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Speaker 6: school and I managed to get a good photo of

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Speaker 6: Lady Die on the nutmobile there.

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Speaker 8: So it's excuse me, they're now king that the nutmo

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Speaker 8: Bill him, what do you mean Nutmobill.

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Speaker 6: There's a nuts from next door to the big Pineapple.

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Speaker 6: It's all part of the one tourist attraction. So they're

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Speaker 6: like little maceadamia nuts in half with you know, so

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Speaker 6: you can see through the middle. And yeah, I got

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Speaker 6: a really good photo of Lady Die sitting in the nutmobil.

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Speaker 1: That is a moment captured that that is so good.

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