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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell's show. That's the How's your day? Yesterday?

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Speaker 3: An interesting day. Daughter's getting older, reaching teenage years, pre

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Speaker 3: teenage years. Anyway, they had house.

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Speaker 2: She's getting on to be like thirty or something.

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Speaker 3: Feels like attitude. It's like a thirty year old.

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Speaker 2: Can I say, how are you finding this transition?

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Speaker 3: It's very difficult. The whole house has to It's evolving,

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Speaker 3: isn't it, and we have to move with it. And

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Speaker 3: it's some it is. It's very hard.

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Speaker 4: And it's like it because that kid that you've known

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Speaker 4: for years, right, they're not one day, They're just not

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Speaker 4: there anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly Jack. It's like someone Yes.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it has popped up with some was with some

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Speaker 4: washing that i'd folded and not to the door, and

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Speaker 4: she was like.

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Speaker 2: Cunning and I went in there and she went, not.

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Speaker 1: Today, you feel like stuff you're delivering clean washing.

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Speaker 4: Clean washing, folded, the washed, dried and folded and apparently

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Speaker 4: not today like some sort of elt and John diva

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Speaker 4: grazing hell. And then I went like this okay, took

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Speaker 4: my wife then goes to me get back up.

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Speaker 5: Then I'm like caught between.

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Speaker 4: Two very strong women and I'm just still week cast man.

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Speaker 4: I was like actually hovering in a center point on

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Speaker 4: the stairs. I don't know where I am on this

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Speaker 4: sliding scale of.

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Speaker 6: You were still there at eight when came to bed.

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Speaker 6: It's terrifying.

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Speaker 3: Teens are terrifying. She scares me.

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Speaker 6: Gordy's never going to be like that. He's too sweet, sweet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this Gordy.

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Speaker 2: You wait, you get Gordy three point zero or something.

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Speaker 4: They have upgrades and downgrades and emo grades.

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Speaker 3: They're like a fluffy little kitten and then all and

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Speaker 3: they're like meducer. But they had house carnivals athletics carnival

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Speaker 3: at school yesterday for the middle school.

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Speaker 6: So she went to that.

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Speaker 4: Great tell me to do it as well once it

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Speaker 4: gets a bit cold, and that the teachers know what

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Speaker 4: they're doing to get the energy out of them.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, so her house house color is burgundy, and as

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Speaker 3: the parents could go and watch them, and I thought

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Speaker 3: that's fun because it's not often you can actually go

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Speaker 3: to school and watch them these days.

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Speaker 2: Tell me you're filming it all?

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Speaker 6: Of course, what's you're competing in?

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Speaker 3: Nothing? So what do you feels her mates, No, that's

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Speaker 3: a bit creepy.

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Speaker 2: That your mum's look.

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Speaker 3: She she didn't want to compete, but she was like

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Speaker 3: a head of the cheers squad. And we said, you

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Speaker 3: know what, that's fine, you're having a go. She's not

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Speaker 3: fond of you know.

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Speaker 2: I get it. I'm the guy.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that back to I would not today.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you say up some trainers and.

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Speaker 2: Cheers. That was the thing.

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Speaker 3: Now, anyway, that's not the project. So the house colour's burgundy.

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Speaker 3: And as I'm approaching, I noticed this something on her face. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: I get there and I notice she's wearing makeup.

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Speaker 2: We should probably going out in the afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Didn't have anything to do because other suckers are doing

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Speaker 4: the actual competing.

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Speaker 6: Came up and I said to.

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Speaker 3: Her, are you wearing eyeliner? And she's like, Mom, shut up,

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Speaker 3: We're all wearing it. So apparently they had like burgundy eyeliner,

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Speaker 3: and then they had like the house name up their arms.

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Speaker 6: That's not like the spirit of the day, Patsy vision.

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Speaker 2: This is woken us. They're wearing eyeliner. Now, Chris, this

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Speaker 2: is the beginning of.

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Speaker 6: I'll just have to crop you out of all the photos.

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Speaker 4: All your friends competing The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 4: Be honest, if we'd have all known back in the

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Speaker 4: day that you could opt out of doing house sports.

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Speaker 2: There was so much misery, there was no doubt, so

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Speaker 2: much misery.

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Speaker 4: I'm not even sure if I'm on the radio twenty

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Speaker 4: five years later looking for some peace from those days.

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Speaker 2: Some scars never heal.

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Speaker 3: That high jump terrified.

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Speaker 2: Me, just most of it.

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Speaker 6: Pats, what sport did you pick? We had to do.

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Speaker 7: You had to at least one sport on f stay,

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Speaker 7: so we did. I did, like a triple jump or

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Speaker 7: something that is hardly anyone competed in.

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Speaker 4: Triple jump is also really hard and it makes no sense.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't replicate like running one hundred meters fifteen hundred

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Speaker 4: meters right, even shot put in traveling, I could understand

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Speaker 4: that You're like.

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Speaker 2: What what is them?

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Speaker 4: A hob skip me and then a jump, not that

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Speaker 4: this is natural? Is this much together a couple of

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Speaker 4: rando events or to create that the one that I

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Speaker 4: used to because in the UK when I grew up

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Speaker 4: in the eighties, there's sort of UK sort of Olympic

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Speaker 4: strategy was like, let's not worry about the swimming events, right, we.

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Speaker 2: Haven't got outdoor polls.

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Speaker 4: We're going to smash athletics because here rain slight summer

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Speaker 4: but mainly rain and mud. We can make the kids

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Speaker 4: go out running. So all it was was like endless

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Speaker 4: outdoor athletics of like one hundred meters, two hundred meters,

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Speaker 4: four hundred meters, and then the dreaded sort of fun.

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Speaker 4: We have to do a five k cross country run

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Speaker 4: where I remember on the day I accidentally forgot my trainers.

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Speaker 4: So he went, okay, Google lost property and all I

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Speaker 4: could find was football wich was studs actual and not

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Speaker 4: like those plastic molded ones out metallic studs and run

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Speaker 4: five k.

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Speaker 2: The first k was going through these housing estates, so

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Speaker 2: it's concrete. So we have.

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Speaker 4: As my shins are being broken way, you got some

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Speaker 4: psycho actual pe teacher who was occasionally kicking me physically

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Speaker 4: in the ass.

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Speaker 5: PTSD. I actually think he was actually.

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Speaker 2: In the war.

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Speaker 5: Plus he had a pipe.

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Speaker 7: Consider yourself lucky though, that you didn't have the swimming

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Speaker 7: carnival that was at to day was one thing, but

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Speaker 7: that swimming carnival once a year and again they had

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Speaker 7: they said you have to do at least one event.

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Speaker 7: So every year I chose backstroke because it was the

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Speaker 7: least likely that.

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Speaker 2: They made you do backstroke.

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Speaker 6: You had to pick it.

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Speaker 7: Always one swim strokes so hard, well better than butterfly

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Speaker 7: or that breast stroke or something that you've literally never

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Speaker 7: done before.

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Speaker 4: And the boys that were very good at that monsters

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Speaker 4: work just like physical freaks. Just like that's like enormous,

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Speaker 4: like Adam's apples and everything.

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Speaker 5: They were like like five years older than you.

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Speaker 2: That's a man. That's why it's a man.

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Speaker 6: That's why I'm so unfair.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't swim and I didn't want to be in

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Speaker 7: my board sorts in front of the girls.

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Speaker 5: It's so shaming, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Rio, you're actually quieted sports person? But was it also

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Speaker 2: a health you school?

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm just saying, like school seeming kindib is so

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Speaker 1: triggering because I remember, like we would have to we

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Speaker 1: didn't get to wear board shots.

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Speaker 6: We had to wear like speedos.

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Speaker 2: Wo.

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Speaker 4: Let's just say right, boys develop at different being trying

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Speaker 4: to get changed in that room and all the comments

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Speaker 4: because that's so boys are l like, wow, Yes, I

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Speaker 4: understand why some men break later on in life. It's

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Speaker 4: because of what happened in there and the things that

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Speaker 4: you said in your part of feel so much shame.

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Speaker 2: It's shocking.

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Speaker 7: I didn't hit puberty into like an ungodly seventeen very

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Speaker 7: very light, very like serious late.

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Speaker 6: Seriously, how did you like your voice?

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Speaker 2: When did your voice mentioned the today or tomorrow? Seventeen?

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Speaker 2: Bloody hell?

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Speaker 7: Would have it would have been before me. And you

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Speaker 7: know what, in the sex head classes which they had

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Speaker 7: when we were growing up, they did a lot of

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Speaker 7: like if your growing hair under your arms, that's okay.

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Speaker 7: They made they prepared you for if you're going.

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Speaker 2: Through puberty early changes are coming.

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Speaker 7: It's okay, it's okay. They didn't do anything for the

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Speaker 7: boys who were very late Blue it might take a

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Speaker 6: But everybody else has got hair under their arms. You

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Speaker 6: might not.

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Speaker 2: So do you go to annoy all boys school?

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Speaker 1: I went to an all boys school, and I remember

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Speaker 1: as well having hair.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that was easier or harder?

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Speaker 1: It was harder, definitely for me. I was a late

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Speaker 1: bloomer like Jack, and I remember just like standing up

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Speaker 1: on the blocks, this scrawny little like kid clearly hadn't developed.

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Speaker 2: That's anxious now, like you've got to go and do it.

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Speaker 6: Swimming Carnival still make me shiver.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember when the girls, My daughters are very

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Speaker 4: very good swimming, so they used to compete and win

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Speaker 4: and going there like pts, like thinking.

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Speaker 5: That I'm gonna have to go and get changed in

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Speaker 5: standing on those that day.

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