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Speaker 1: This is the Christian o'connells Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: For one hundred and nineteen years. On the banks of

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Speaker 2: the Yarrow River, the Australian Open has crowned the game's

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Speaker 2: greatest champions.

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Speaker 3: It Becca is the new champion. A Shparty is the

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Speaker 3: Australian Open Champion.

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Speaker 2: They've all hit massive serves and whacked winners on their

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Speaker 2: way to glory in Melbourne, but none of them have

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Speaker 2: ever hit it over.

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Speaker 3: For the winner.

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Speaker 2: Vip courtside tickets to the men's final at the Australian

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Speaker 2: Open amazing, and now the time has come for fifteen

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Speaker 2: brave challenges to take their shot at greatness. There are champions.

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Speaker 3: I won the two Young Championship back to back. There

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Speaker 3: are rookies. I'm not very good, they'll maybe hit a

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Speaker 3: tennis ball in moral way.

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Speaker 2: And bodies that were built for this moment.

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Speaker 4: I'm extreme all I've done the ten Melbourne marathons.

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Speaker 1: I've just got a new I okay catteract surgery.

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Speaker 3: Anyone can talk a big game.

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Speaker 4: I reckon I've got to be at sixty sixty, I

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Speaker 4: mean covering that saving meters no problem. Every time. I

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Speaker 4: be confidence and I can hit.

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Speaker 2: The ball over the hour, but the time for talk

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Speaker 2: is over. Only the biggest hitters remain. A champion is

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Speaker 2: about to be crowned. It's time for the grand final

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Speaker 2: of Christian O'Connell's Longest.

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Speaker 3: Some of the heats are over.

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Speaker 1: There have been some big, big hits, nonstopic hits today

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Speaker 1: on our first ever longest serve.

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Speaker 3: Up for grabs tickets to the men's final this weekend.

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Speaker 1: In the Australian Open, the challenge is how far can

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Speaker 1: you hit the tennis ball over the hour? It's seventy meters.

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Speaker 1: So we've been doing it in three age groups. We've

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Speaker 1: had the young guns, the top shot there step forward

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Speaker 1: in a minute. The guestimate to Lewis hit it a

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Speaker 1: massive sixty seven meters.

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Speaker 4: Can you believe that, Joe, I can, because I'm sorry

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Speaker 4: I saw it.

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Speaker 3: We saw it.

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Speaker 1: In the seniors we had hot shot Dave seventy one

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Speaker 1: meters and then representing the over sixties spartan who actually

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Speaker 1: did a five k warm up rum before hitting a

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Speaker 1: fifty nine. So the top hot shot on each of

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Speaker 1: the age groups about to hit for one more time.

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Speaker 1: We're about to find our winner, who's going to the

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Speaker 1: Australia and the men's final this weekend. Okay, Jack, because

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Speaker 1: we've had that boat that essentially he've been mainly taking selfies.

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Speaker 4: In and not Minday it's usually a commercial fishing boat,

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Speaker 4: he said, is it. Yeah, But they're just dropping the

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Speaker 4: boys the markers here today.

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Speaker 1: To make sure that we use all the available thing

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Speaker 1: resources we've had here. When we find the winner, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to let them come down to that boat, getting

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Speaker 1: them to the victory left victory. Yeah, okay, because this

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Speaker 1: is what one of these heroes deserves. Are we ready

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Speaker 1: to find out who's winning tickets to the men's final

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Speaker 1: this weekend?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 1: At first, good luck he's hitting again. In his first hit,

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Speaker 1: he was actually first up. Have everyone this morning, did

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Speaker 1: a huge sixty seven meters. The guestimator Lewis, good luck.

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Speaker 1: You're playing for tickets now one and three chants of

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Speaker 1: off to the men's final. Good luck, Thank you, Christian,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Are the tickets yours? Have you got it?

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Speaker 4: Hot shots bond the seventy meters, So I'll have to

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Speaker 4: give it everything, I think, but we'll see how we go.

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Speaker 1: All right, big round applause. Then for the Guesstinator hitting

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Speaker 1: for the tickets.

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Speaker 3: Good luck.

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Speaker 4: We'd love to see a bounce on the other side

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Speaker 4: of the river. He's small, it's huge.

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Speaker 1: It's hi strong confidence, like an arrow piercing through the

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Speaker 1: sky over the era.

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Speaker 3: Two meters short of the Oh my gosh. So what

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Speaker 3: do you reckon? Jack? Roughly?

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Speaker 1: I butt it maybe sixty eight six, big one. It

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Speaker 1: could be yours well down the gastinator. He's still most

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Speaker 1: to get a bit further than sixty seven. I reckon,

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Speaker 1: which is great. Up now here he is, he came

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Speaker 1: from nowhere. Suddenly all eyes tupac recording him. All eyes

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Speaker 1: are on Dave, Hot shot, Dave. Everyone's looking at you.

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Speaker 1: You did a huge seventy one. You're in the lead month.

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Speaker 1: But it's all about this, my friend. Can you do it?

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Speaker 2: It all comes down to now, and I'm still nervous

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Speaker 2: because one mishit.

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Speaker 3: It's all over.

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Speaker 1: Why would you even mention miss Hits. Come on, now,

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Speaker 1: you've got this, okay. Your family are here, your daughters

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Speaker 1: are here, your wife's here. Let's do it. Come on,

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Speaker 1: hot Shot, Come on, Dave. I get a feeling you

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Speaker 1: are the winner.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 4: He's going for another overhand serve. Everyone else is going

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Speaker 4: for the underarm.

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Speaker 3: Smash smashed it shot in the morning.

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Speaker 4: Shoot, it's gonna be half a meter short of the bag.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that could be our winner.

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Speaker 1: Now to match or beat that, we go to our senior. Here,

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Speaker 1: our Spartan who to get into the vinyl hit fifty

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Speaker 1: nine meters. Anything could happen. Go it's just another three

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Speaker 1: k cheeky warm up in between that.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Certaly did do? I want to keep warm? Keep

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Speaker 3: our arm going nicely? Well, give it another guy. There

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Speaker 3: was a massive hit from hot shot back.

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Speaker 1: Look, you never know, you never know, my friend, Spartan

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Speaker 1: spirit good luck, Spartan, garth off you go, my friend

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Speaker 1: hit for glory. Give it your best shot. Huge run up, bloody.

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Speaker 1: Now he's back in creaking boat.

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Speaker 4: It's the worst shot we've had all the time.

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Speaker 1: Jack, come on, it's the most powerful one.

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Speaker 3: Shame on, news st I don't want a sad way

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Speaker 3: to finish. No, no, he came, he sorry, trickle Spartan.

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Speaker 3: I blame the five k warm up. My friend running

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Speaker 3: too much warm, his legs were tired. Jat with the

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Speaker 3: run out there.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I won't have to collect that boy, you can

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Speaker 4: just reach it and get it.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: We have a winner, the scores and the doors. Then

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Speaker 1: let's go in reverse orders to go straight to Spartan.

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Speaker 3: We got thirty two meters a huge third, a huge shot.

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Speaker 3: Don't they don't get the details? All right? Sitting strong

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Speaker 3: in second place.

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Speaker 2: We have hot shot at seventy two meters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, winning this morning is hot shot at seventy two meters.

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Speaker 1: The sceniors one, come on, come on, yes, our champion

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Speaker 1: this morning. He came, he saw two huge hits. He

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Speaker 1: cleared the Yarrow hot shots. Our new champ. Their dad

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Speaker 1: did this that Your kids are yeah yeah, one of

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Speaker 1: them is clapping.

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Speaker 3: One of was that you win the VIP tickets. Then

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Speaker 3: you and the missus coming Dave. I'm not sure yet.

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Speaker 3: Hell yeah, we'll discuss.

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Speaker 1: Been here all morning looking after a two year old

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Speaker 1: and a five year old. They change when they get glory.

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Speaker 1: You see this all the time with the great So

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Speaker 1: kids are running on. He's probably already moving on family

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Speaker 1: sad things that mums are getting the feeling mums dons

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Speaker 1: for the guilt shot.

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Speaker 3: Why not VIP course side tickets.

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Speaker 1: Our winner this morning of the first ever longer sub

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Speaker 1: is a very deserving Dave from the seniors the seniors

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Speaker 1: have still got it.

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Speaker 3: Well done.

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Speaker 1: Dave and family enjoyed the big day Sunday. Dave, what

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Speaker 1: do you want to say? You are the winner, Thanks

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Speaker 1: to everyone that's put this on, Christian O'Connell show and

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Speaker 1: Gold one O four point three and Jack for doing

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Speaker 1: nothing out there on the boat.

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Speaker 3: So congratulates. I can hear.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Jack, and everyone else is coming out competing, so world,

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Speaker 1: don't everyone.

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Speaker 3: I don't want thank you very much. Evan. He has

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Speaker 3: come down this morning.

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Speaker 4: Rangers one idea. I know we're already running late, but

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Speaker 4: he was so close to clearing the river. Do we

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Speaker 4: give him one more hit? And if he makes it, you're.

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Speaker 1: Talking about spotting, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Push him in the river.

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Speaker 1: Give hot Shot one more he is he's the people's champion.

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Speaker 1: Dave's wife just said you can walk home. He might

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Speaker 1: need to take that boat all the way home. Jack,

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Speaker 1: all right, one will go from a hot Shot. This

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Speaker 1: one's just for fun everything, Come on, hot shot another

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Speaker 1: big overhand one.

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Speaker 3: It's ship, it's huge, it's huge, it's just done it.

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Speaker 1: Big sixty nine goes to seventy, goes to seventy plus.

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Speaker 1: This guy really is hot Shot. A new king is born,

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Speaker 1: crowned right here.

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Speaker 3: It is incredible. You did it twice day. What a startling,

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Speaker 3: a brighter.

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