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

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Speaker 1: Jackie. Well, what were kids do? They have no idea about?

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Speaker 3: When you wanted to walk through for a game hints

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Speaker 3: and tips, you had to call an Nintendo hot lone.

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Speaker 1: I want to get like cheat cost stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the particular game I was playing was Game Boys

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Speaker 3: Pokemon YEP, and I couldn't get through the dark cave

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Speaker 3: with the diglets and I had to call this line and.

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Speaker 1: For was it one of those sort of premium lines.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because I didn't even get to the point where

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Speaker 3: they gave me the walkthrough because I got told off

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Speaker 3: my parents for calling their hot r But Nintendo would

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Speaker 3: have a hot line that you can call and ask

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Speaker 3: a specialist about games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, these days you'll just watch what is it on Twitch?

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Speaker 4: They're on with all their cheat codes and YouTube. They've

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Speaker 4: got all these hacks. The other thing that I I

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Speaker 4: was bore of my kids the other day with this

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Speaker 4: is like years ago, before texting and mobile phones and

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Speaker 4: everything like that, you simply go around to your friend's

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Speaker 4: house just to see if they were in. You'd have

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Speaker 4: to knock on the door, as nobody else'd buy their

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Speaker 4: mum or Dad, and they might not be in. If

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Speaker 4: they weren't in, there was that walk of shame when

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Speaker 4: you had to then get the bus home or that.

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Speaker 4: So kids the data that would ever have any idea,

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Speaker 4: there's no whatsapping or anything like that. You had to

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Speaker 4: go around somebody's house and walk out whether or not

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Speaker 4: they're coming out to play. All right, let's tack some

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Speaker 4: calls then about what will kids today have no idea about?

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Speaker 4: On Facebook page? The terrifying excitement of a girl giving

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Speaker 4: you her house number to ask you out. Radio Mike,

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Speaker 4: who I believe is a friend of yours, paying one

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Speaker 4: dollar sixty nine for a track on iTunes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I found an old eyeball the other day. I said,

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Speaker 1: that's so much money trapped in that fee. I mean

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Speaker 1: so much money now going to stream.

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Speaker 4: It for like ten bucks a month or whatever it

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Speaker 4: is on Spotify multiplayer meant sitting beside your brother playing

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Speaker 4: Super Mario Brothers on the snares and then starting a

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Speaker 4: full on brawl. That's from mer Joe waiting for computer

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Speaker 4: games to load off the cassette tape, then realizing it

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Speaker 4: fell because the volume was wrong. Servo attendance, Christian. I

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Speaker 4: remember in Australia when there were a tendency used to

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Speaker 4: fill up your car for you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I only say that as an American thing in

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Speaker 3: American movies.

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Speaker 4: Yep, that's from Nick. Now, Peter, what would kids today

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Speaker 4: have no idea about.

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Speaker 5: No idea about the classic wall phone, the landline with

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Speaker 5: the extended cord. I'd be talking to my girlfriend and

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Speaker 5: I wanted to tell I love her, and I'd go

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Speaker 5: into the cupboard and shut the door so now and

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Speaker 5: us could hear it, and I'd say, I love you.

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Speaker 1: This is how we used to be. This is love

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Speaker 1: in the eighties. I was the same as you.

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Speaker 4: My dad wouldn't step to the long cord, so I

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Speaker 4: actually drag the phone into the understairs cupboard, shut myself

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Speaker 4: in the dock and go love you.

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Speaker 3: Terrifying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was illicit love in the eighties.

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Speaker 4: You'll like hiding on that phone and then you were

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Speaker 4: your sister would yell at you You've been on too long.

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Speaker 1: Peter.

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Speaker 4: Were also only allowed to make calls to friends in

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Speaker 4: the evening when it was half priced.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, that was about the case.

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Speaker 5: And I'd tell you whenever the landline would ring, it'd

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Speaker 5: be like now the phone's ringing. Who is it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the world's calling.

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Speaker 4: Who's come through the land with a message for us

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Speaker 4: to that special line through earth? Peter, thank you very much,

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Speaker 4: you call mate, that's calling the show.

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Speaker 5: Thanks guys, Ryan, Yah.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to show. And what would kiss today?

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Speaker 3: Have no idea about the way to tell if your

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Speaker 3: friends were home, there would be a pile of bikes

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Speaker 4: You are all just dumped on top of each other

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Speaker 4: and there was like an orgy of bikes there. Definitely, Ryan,

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Speaker 4: thank you very much. Chicolle's got a peete. We well,

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Speaker 4: kids today have no idea about.

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Speaker 2: Ah, the magic and wonder of a cassette tape.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there.

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Speaker 4: Were enough very flimsy tenants, you weren't they spoiling it

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Speaker 4: with that pencil and then we get chewed up in

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Speaker 4: the tape.

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Speaker 2: Deck putting a bit of sticky tape over the tab

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Speaker 2: elation of actually fast forwarding is stopping right at the

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Speaker 1: It was a fine art. It was a fine art.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you did that, people would steer in wonder.

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Speaker 2: You were a legend. It was great, But yeah, you

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Speaker 2: could have also the drama of having to try and

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Speaker 2: pull the tape out, or listening to a song that

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Speaker 2: too much, but that it was fantastic.

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Speaker 4: There was the other thing that if you left on

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Speaker 4: the dashboard in the heat and it got all mounted,

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Speaker 4: that was the end of that album. I'm not in

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Speaker 4: the ocean in the car, all right, Pete, thank you

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Speaker 4: very much. Christian overhead projectors and transparencies in school classrooms,

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Speaker 4: do you remember the OHP, that loud noise that used

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Speaker 4: to make as well? And they used to have that

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Speaker 4: or too much the lesson.

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Speaker 1: They were to get really protective about that cover that over.

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Speaker 3: They would block out the Christians.

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Speaker 4: Coming, all the good stuff's yet to come.

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Speaker 3: I feel like they always put that transparent piece of

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Speaker 3: paper down the wrong way first and then had to

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Speaker 1: Every lesson we're talking about.

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Speaker 4: What were kids these days have no idea about cars

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Speaker 4: without air conditioning or power steering. Yeah, pain by check

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Speaker 4: feels like a real old school thing now, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Christian.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying I did this, but connecting your friends

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Speaker 4: vcr to yours, to illegally copy movie, paying twenty five

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Speaker 4: cents per text, creating ring tones, pushing corresponding numbers.

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Speaker 3: Remember in text when we was paying for every text

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Speaker 3: and you had one hundred and sixty characters and you'd

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Speaker 3: start backspace, backspace, What can I lose? So this is

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Speaker 4: Tapping out phone number on a rotary dial phone using

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Speaker 4: a lock in it. My dad did put a lock

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Speaker 4: on it. Kids would have no idea about handing an

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Speaker 4: assignment on floppy disk, hearing the pips on a payphone.

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Speaker 4: Christian when the Christmas countdown to number one was a

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Speaker 1: And then Romperum. I remember Romperum. They used to say

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Speaker 1: grace before the kids had their snacks. They were to.

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Speaker 4: Say this God is great, God is good, and let

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Speaker 4: us thank him for our food. As a kid, it

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Speaker 3: Only on paper. Looks right, yeah, sound right?

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Speaker 1: Thank you Carol.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go back to what kids today would

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Speaker 6: Tim Yeah, I'm the guy that people rang up if

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Speaker 6: they got stuck on a video game. I'm the guy.

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Speaker 1: So who did you work for?

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Speaker 6: I worked, but it was my first job, my very

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Speaker 3: I found it incredible. So I used to call the

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Speaker 3: Nintendo hotline in time before Internet, when you couldn't get

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Speaker 3: tips or walk throughs. I called the Nintendo hot line

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Speaker 3: to a guy who knew essentially every part of every game.

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Speaker 3: How did you know so much about the games?

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Speaker 6: We basically played them? So we in our hotline we

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Speaker 6: had two huge cupboards full of games.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god?

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Speaker 6: What was Basically you came into work, you cracked them.

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Speaker 6: So there was four main guys and I was one

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Speaker 6: of them, and we were all called Sega masters at

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember masters. I remember we had a game

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Speaker 4: some of my friends. Do you remember wonder Boy?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, wonderful game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wonderful game. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I can never very far on that, which I'd called

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Speaker 4: you if you about you about then, Tim.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we could have. But ironically, the most common game

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Speaker 6: that Alex Kidd in Miracle World, and it was like

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Speaker 6: every second call was about this game. And the first

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Speaker 6: thing they'd say is I'm stuck in a room and say,

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Speaker 6: all right, we're just given the sequence and we'd say

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Speaker 6: some wave moon starts, some moon waves, fish starfish, and

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Speaker 6: they were the symbols. But they had the war cave

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Speaker 6: up to finish the game.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like a song off Rump Room.

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Speaker 1: Was a different kind of song.

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Speaker 6: We all have nightmares about that room because we can

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Speaker 6: still remember the scenon.

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Speaker 1: Well, lovely to chat, Tim, Thank you very much to

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Speaker 1: give us a call.

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