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Katie spoke with local artists Les Huddleston about him being struck by lightning at Gateway recently · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is a gentleman
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  Speaker 1: who actually got hit by lightning two fridays ago, as
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  Speaker 1: I understand it, at Gateway shopping Center. Lez Helstone joins
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  Speaker 1: me on the line. Get a lez hey, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: go not bad mate.
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  Speaker 2: What happened three point thirty two fridays ago in the
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  Speaker 2: car park? Got hit by lightning? Are by lightning through
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  Speaker 2: my car? Oh my goodness, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk us through what happened. You were sitting in
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  Speaker 1: your car and what there was a storm around? Was it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a storm and everything and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of lightning. So I got out of my car and
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  Speaker 2: I went around the back of it and I opened
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  Speaker 2: the back, got an umbrella out. Well, no shuttered, the
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  Speaker 2: key was in the in the key hole still. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And when I and then it sort of struck then
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  Speaker 2: and then sort of when a struggle went back and
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  Speaker 2: it disconnected me from the from the strike. Here, doctor said,
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  Speaker 2: I was really lucky.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Lise, I've never spoken to somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: been struck by lightning before. Are you okay?
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  Speaker 2: First day, I really saw a third day a little
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  Speaker 2: bit delusional. Then Monday and that just sort of started
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  Speaker 2: getting better. I was really tired on one side, on
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  Speaker 2: the right hand side, right up right up to the
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  Speaker 2: top of me, the bottom of my head, past my
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  Speaker 2: ear stretched out, you know, weirdest feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I understand that you've just seen the CCTV footageat
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like to say?
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm telling Peter, They like, you can't get
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  Speaker 2: any you know, letter. I wasn't allowed to take it
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  Speaker 2: or get a film or ending like that, or get
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  Speaker 2: a copy of it because of legal reasons and all
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  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. But they wrote me a letter
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  Speaker 2: and stated that I actually got hit, because anybody can
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  Speaker 2: tell you they got hit. Yeah, but you know, and
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  Speaker 2: they said that they first of all, we couldn't see
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  Speaker 2: a little I couldn't see a little lightning, yep. And
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  Speaker 2: then when we then looked over and over again and
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  Speaker 2: you can see you at the same time a white
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  Speaker 2: light come up at the bottom and at the exact
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  Speaker 2: same time I sort of jolped and got stepped back
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  Speaker 2: a couple of steps.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Liz, what was it like for you then sort
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  Speaker 1: of watching that vision and you know, having it confirmed
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  Speaker 1: exactly what had gone.
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  Speaker 2: On, Ah, that's unbelievable. Like, I can't. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: The doctors they told me, they said, you need You're
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  Speaker 2: so lucky that you had thongs on because it pretty
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  Speaker 2: much saved your life.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that exactly that how
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  Speaker 1: you alive to tell this tale.
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  Speaker 2: Because of them bongs and probably because of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that I had an umbrella in the left hand and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have two hands on the back of the car. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because if I would have had two hands on the car,
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  Speaker 2: I would have got sort of sort of held there.
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  Speaker 2: But I had one hand and when it when it,
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  Speaker 2: when it did strike, sort of pushed me back, got
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  Speaker 2: a hell of a shock, But I didn't get like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I would have got the full full
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  Speaker 2: blunder it. If I would have, I wouldn't be talking
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  Speaker 2: to you in our suppose do you remember me, I'd
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  Speaker 2: done the T shirts, I've done the night four shirts
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  Speaker 2: and less. Yes there, Oh mate.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe that you got bloody hit by lightning.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it either.
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  Speaker 1: And you're alive to tell the tale. Did you go
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  Speaker 1: buy a lot of ticket? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I won seven bucks, got a gun by a lot
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  Speaker 2: of tickets because you know you're you're lucky. And I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I went and bought it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh mate, well I'm going to give you a territory
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  Speaker 1: and of the week. I reckon that's a better price.
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  Speaker 1: That is a beautiful hamper, which is which is it's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful care package supplied by Nevil at Parrap fine
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  Speaker 1: foods with gourmet goodness for your goodness. And I tell
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  Speaker 1: you what, I think that's much better going than your
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  Speaker 1: seven bucks on your lotto tickets.
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  Speaker 2: My life, my life, Liz, I just.
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  Speaker 1: Can't believe it. Like you know, you sort of here,
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  Speaker 1: like I think you hear a lot or you're sort
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  Speaker 1: of hearing the news at different times that that somebody
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  Speaker 1: has been struck by lightning. But then to actually speak
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  Speaker 1: to someone who's been struck by lightning right here in
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  Speaker 1: Darwin or in Palmerstan and and that you've survived to
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  Speaker 1: tell the tale, it's it's just astonishing.
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  Speaker 2: Well with all the lightning around, you know, it's one
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't have more often. I can you know they're
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  Speaker 2: walking in everywhere. I'm a bit suss now. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really want to get on a plane no more, just
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  Speaker 2: in case it gets suit by lightning. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I go out cutting ditches and all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and you wouldn't. Yeah, loads of lightning. I never had
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  Speaker 2: no worries. I don't think it'll be doing it no more?
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  Speaker 1: No les myke, what kind of of rubber songs have
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  Speaker 1: you got? I think is what everybody is wondering and
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  Speaker 1: wondering if they need to go get themselves a pair.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they cost two dollars. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do with him? I'm going to put
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  Speaker 2: them in a put them in a put them in
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  Speaker 2: a frame, an just keep them forever.
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  Speaker 1: I freaking I would.
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  Speaker 2: I said that to my family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what was their reaction and what's their reaction being?
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  Speaker 1: Then after seeing the CCTV or I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: they've seen it, but you know what's their reaction been?
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  Speaker 1: You know, over this whole thing, I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Get all the relations and cousins ringing up, joking about it,
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  Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff telling me how to
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  Speaker 2: have I asking me if I got super powers and
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  Speaker 2: all this kind of stuff. Now, but then right down
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  Speaker 2: to earth, my like, this is a story on the
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  Speaker 2: on the on the Sunday, I was driving the car
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  Speaker 2: around and because I had to drive the car from
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  Speaker 2: after I got shot over to Danila Dilba because I
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  Speaker 2: went into I went into the gateway and they were
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  Speaker 2: sort of just like really too busy, and I was
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  Speaker 2: sort of standing up there looking like a whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: I said, I said, oh, buet this. I just jumped
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  Speaker 2: in my can't driver to Danilla Dilba and got done
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  Speaker 2: over there. And my wife said to me, because we
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  Speaker 2: went for a drive on Sunday and she said where
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  Speaker 2: are you going? And I said, I'm going to I'm
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  Speaker 2: down the halls and she said, well, you're going the
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  Speaker 2: wrong way. Can you get out and let me drive? Please?
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  Speaker 2: So that kind of thing happens too, so and then
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  Speaker 2: mother all sort of you know, ringing up or feel
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  Speaker 2: what happened? You sure, yeah, sure, well I tell you
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  Speaker 2: when I've seen it. Now that I've seen that, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about it, because you know what people
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  Speaker 2: are like, you can you can you can say something
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  Speaker 2: and I go yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But you're saying it well, as you've said, it really
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  Speaker 1: did happen. And you've obviously been to see the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen that CC TV as well. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it was bloody frightening, Les, and a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: warning I think for all of us that you do
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  Speaker 1: need to be, you know, a bit bit careful when
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  Speaker 1: there is that lightning about.
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  Speaker 2: Sure do, yeah, will be from there on. And I
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  Speaker 2: bet I can sit in the room now, in the house, now,
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  Speaker 2: in the well outside in the light and come on
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  Speaker 2: just go inside.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I would do, mate, Les, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to leave it there. Thanks so much for giving
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  Speaker 1: us a call and making us aware of what had
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  Speaker 1: gone on. And yet a bit of a warning for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I reckon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, so what does it mean when you
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  Speaker 2: like what did you say about territory?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're well, you're our territory and of the week.
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  Speaker 1: So if you stay on hold, I'll get Daniel to
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  Speaker 1: get all your details and you'll be able to pick
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  Speaker 1: up a beautiful hamper from perap Fine Foods. Big thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Neville from perap Fine Foods.
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  Speaker 2: When I go there, i'll produce my my letter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good on you. Thank you so much, Les for
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  Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning. I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you