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The Secret Tunnels Underneath The World's Most Famous Mansion · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Coming up on the Wild World Web secret tunnels under
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  Speaker 1: one of the world's most famous houses.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the unchanged realm of the world's wide Web,
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  Speaker 2: a swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self obsessed social
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  Speaker 2: media posts in this digital jungle. Jhonalan being a your
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  Speaker 2: fearless guide leading you through the wildest parts of the
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  Speaker 2: wild wild Web.
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  Speaker 1: This is the wild Wild Web.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, welcome along to another edition of the wild Wild Web,
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  Speaker 3: where we like to talk about something that's gone viral
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  Speaker 3: on the internet, story that everyone's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but tight are there? The radio awards last night,
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  Speaker 1: the New Zealand Radio Awards and sorry, how do we go?
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  Speaker 4: How do we go?
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  Speaker 3: How don't we If you were there, you remember, can
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  Speaker 3: we play that audio as well too for our podcast audience.
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  Speaker 5: We had a big night, but it was you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's tough because it's a Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: As I said before, what Monster puts on Thursday night
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  Speaker 3: when we have a breakfast show in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: That we couldn't get off. We tried to wangle that,
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  Speaker 5: didn't we.
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  Speaker 6: And I was like, it's not gonna break my spirit.
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  Speaker 6: I will prosper to kind of have those nights.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and you know you push the boat out
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  Speaker 5: a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to get to produce a Taylor's house.
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  Speaker 6: We had to sleep over at her house, Producer Grace
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  Speaker 6: and I.
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  Speaker 4: So Taylor went home earlier.
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  Speaker 6: She gave us the code to her house so that
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  Speaker 6: we wouldn't wake her up. And this was us trying
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  Speaker 6: to get into her house. Are you to give it, Grace,
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  Speaker 6: I'm a mob wife.
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  Speaker 4: Ouch.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's a thistle, Grace.
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  Speaker 4: Can you just I'm trying to pack up my shoes.
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  Speaker 6: Grace is lifting thirty garden Louis let us, Louis. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know my husband yet.
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  Speaker 5: I love it, so Grace produced.
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  Speaker 3: Grace is with yeah, she's what early twenties, And I
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  Speaker 3: love how she's the response, yeah, I need to go
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  Speaker 3: to me.
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  Speaker 5: She's telling you to.
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  Speaker 6: Turn off a light and in turn irresponsible child when
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  Speaker 6: I'm drunk.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 3: And I love how you found extra syllables and words
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  Speaker 3: that didn't even know we're there.
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  Speaker 4: You really announced it like we all walked on.
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  Speaker 5: Booze.
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  Speaker 3: You're like really trying hard, and you think and you're here,
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  Speaker 3: You're like, I am knowling this, and then later you
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  Speaker 3: know It's like when you're the sober one at a
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  Speaker 3: party and people talk, you're like, oh my god, they're
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  Speaker 3: really smash.
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  Speaker 5: But you hear when you're the drunks and you're.
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  Speaker 1: Like, fine, going to wrap your mouth around those words
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  Speaker 1: to talk fell in the garden. I'm glad you had
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  Speaker 1: a good night. That's the main thing. That's the main thing. Now, listen, world, World,
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  Speaker 1: We've found some interesting plans underneath. The Playboy mentioned, So
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  Speaker 1: Playboy magazine h hiff knows the under wasn't he.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it's really taken a turn that whole. You know,
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  Speaker 3: for a while it was probably a prestigious thing. The
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  Speaker 3: Playboy mentioned. The more you find kind of find out
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  Speaker 3: about the way people were treated there and things like
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  Speaker 3: that over the years, it's kind of and things that
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  Speaker 3: went on, you're like, it makes you feel a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit like glamorous.
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  Speaker 3: But for a while there it seemed like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people or the celebrities wanted to go. It seemed from
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  Speaker 3: the outside looking in that celebrities wanted to be all
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  Speaker 3: these parties there. But now you look about like maybe
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  Speaker 3: not everyone wanted to be at these parties.
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  Speaker 1: Well, some clearly didn't want to be seen going into
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  Speaker 1: the parties because there were secret underground tunnels to neighboring
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  Speaker 1: properties which were owned by very famous movie star Sir
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  Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson Beck and his heydo quite the pants man
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  Speaker 1: je Quite. I think he's publicly said he's slept with thousands.
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  Speaker 5: See the one too.
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  Speaker 3: Also that had to band himself from using the internet
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  Speaker 3: or on as Fine because he was like, I was
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  Speaker 3: just looking at so much pornography.
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  Speaker 5: I just I think, so I'm gonna it's just yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jene Nicholson banned himself from sitting courtside after spilling tap
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  Speaker 1: of homemade chili onto the Lakers course.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well maybe I've just made it up.
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  Speaker 1: He takes your own te homemade chili to the Lakers.
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  Speaker 5: Well he loves the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right, so yes, so he was banned from
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  Speaker 1: some court side.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I've just made that up.
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  Speaker 6: That needs to be a phone and topic on the show.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah what are you taking?
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  Speaker 1: What are you sneaking in? And you tap away your container?
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  Speaker 1: But you know, so, Jack Nicholson was in a neighboring
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  Speaker 1: house and there were secret underground tunnels to his house.
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  Speaker 1: There's another actor, Warren Beattie. Uh, he was also quite
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  Speaker 1: the Pantsman apparently secret tunnel to his house straight through
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  Speaker 1: to the Playboy mention.
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  Speaker 4: Well that's dangerous, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose it probably makes sense if you're the name,
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  Speaker 3: if you're a celebrity as well. Yeah, there's a whole
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting the tunnel situation. Have you ever seen that
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  Speaker 3: there's a docco in Las Vegas. There's a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: of people. I think they call them like the mole
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  Speaker 3: or something like that, but there's like thousands of people
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  Speaker 3: live under the cea of Las Vegas and tunnels.
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  Speaker 5: There's this whole under No, I've watched this.
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  Speaker 3: Whole doc go on it it's yeah, it's actually really
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  Speaker 3: there's the whole Vegas tunnel and there's like almost there's
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  Speaker 3: like thousands, it's like probably fifteen hundred people or a
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  Speaker 3: couple thousand.
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  Speaker 6: People, the mole, people living beneath the Las Vegas Strip.
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  Speaker 5: It's really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a whole little society they're living under the tunnels.
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  Speaker 3: I think they were a previous from memory, they were
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  Speaker 3: like tunnels that are no longer being used for, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's sewerage or water is now but yeah, from memory,
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a really fascinating thing.
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  Speaker 5: They live all under the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you need.
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  Speaker 3: Light tunnel dwellers that live under there. Yeah, it's a document.
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  Speaker 3: I watched it years ago, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think that, Yeah, it sounds familiar. There's like dozens
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, oh wait, they're like, you don't say homeless people,
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  Speaker 6: you say, well, it's homeless people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they've kind of created their own little society
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  Speaker 3: under their and they're kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of that's where they were to tunnel. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I choose to love some of them from memory work
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  Speaker 3: as well. And then they kind of just go down
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  Speaker 3: there for their accommodation and stuff, and they've created this
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  Speaker 3: whole thing sheltered.
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  Speaker 5: Old people live under there, like yeah, some guys got.
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  Speaker 4: Attle stuff, like the term mole people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've now got inside his head.
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  Speaker 4: There was the coot.
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  Speaker 5: There was the coolest thing in mastering.
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  Speaker 1: For a while.
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  Speaker 3: They had this amazing like a Queen Elizabeth Park. They
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  Speaker 3: had this tunnel section, which was cooled. These really cool
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  Speaker 3: tunnels used to play in, but then very quickly ended
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  Speaker 3: up with teenagers passion in there, people peeing in there.
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  Speaker 3: It went from the coolest thing to like, yeah, to like,
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  Speaker 3: and you never know. As a kid it was I
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  Speaker 3: guess it was part of the excitement. You'd be like
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  Speaker 3: crawling around this tunnel, all these Mazer tunnels. You'll be like,
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  Speaker 3: what am I going to encounter?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Going to see someone passion?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's going to happen here? But yeah, it was
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  Speaker 5: very cool.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they exist anymore in Mastering either. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think anyone was living in there or anything. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was one of the one of my one of
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  Speaker 3: the things I remember from my childhood.
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  Speaker 1: Take quick break, will be back after this, Welcome back.
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  Speaker 1: What's the coolest tunnel you've been in? Is the cool tunnel?
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  Speaker 2: It was?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty cool tunnel.
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  Speaker 4: I quite like.
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  Speaker 1: Going there's the tunnel at the end of the there's
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  Speaker 1: the motorway, the new tunnel. There's nice tunnel, a new tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit of tunnel. Okay, that's very mainstream.
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  Speaker 6: What's the one I like the South Island? Is it
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  Speaker 6: the tunnel? Isn't it really long?
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  Speaker 3: I do like the Mount Victoria one in Wellington. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it sort of goes between me. If you go from
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  Speaker 3: the airport just towards the Basin Reserve there. It's one
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  Speaker 3: of the ones you like you go through and a
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  Speaker 3: lot well I like to you know, you toot your horn.
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  Speaker 3: But having walked through there to go the cricket once
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  Speaker 3: and when people too, the hon Jesus is loud, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: freaking loud, and you're like, you think twice now about
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  Speaker 3: turning turning your horn, and so you do that, did it?
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  Speaker 3: And you hope someone else will well, you know, reply back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to find audio. I took the kids
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  Speaker 1: through a tunnel at Christmas time and jeez, telling you
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of care. There's about ten kids.
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  Speaker 1: Will you take kids into a tunnel? They're like, it
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  Speaker 1: was yeah, it was in the Corimandle. Actually it was
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  Speaker 1: a good tunnel. Gold mining town. What's the gold mining
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  Speaker 1: town there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: What's it called? On your way to that starts with
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  Speaker 1: w oh gold mining town. Let me have a look.
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  Speaker 1: Why why is that you can go on a big,
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  Speaker 1: big tour of the old gold mines okay without gurgling.
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  Speaker 3: The longest tunnel in the world, the Road tunnel. How
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  Speaker 3: long do you think it would take to pass through
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  Speaker 3: the tunnel? How many minutes?
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  Speaker 4: Ten?
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  Speaker 6: Are you counting by train train tunnels or is it
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  Speaker 6: a road tunnel, because I'm thinking, isn't that the tunnel
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  Speaker 6: that goes from Paris to London.
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  Speaker 3: No, this is one that's not one. This is one
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  Speaker 3: you can drive through. Yeah, because there's one through the
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  Speaker 3: channel something in it.
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  Speaker 4: It's dark for a very long time channel.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So were you ten minutes you think, John, what
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  Speaker 3: are you guessing to go through? Longest tunnel to drive through?
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  Speaker 4: Did you say ten minutes? Yeah, twenty twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 5: That's in Norway. Just think about that takes twenty minutes
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  Speaker 5: to past the tunnel. Six case, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Like how long it is.
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  Speaker 5: It's the longest drive the tunnel to drive through in
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  Speaker 5: the world.
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  Speaker 1: Marvel of engineering tunnel is twenty four So twenty four
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  Speaker 1: point five kilometers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh sorry, the lights is lights bright lights
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  Speaker 3: every sex case. So yeah, twenty four k's just tune.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the kids in the key. Oh yeah, and that one,
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  Speaker 1: that one went for a kilometer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just want to make noise inside out and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a ca for a tunnel.
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  Speaker 4: I know, the Waterview tunnel is really long.
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  Speaker 6: But down near the Southern Alps, the Tierna tunnel that
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  Speaker 6: I talked about it's eight is that thousand eight five
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  Speaker 6: six six? That's eight thousand, five and six six. It
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  Speaker 6: was a big night last night. But that's the one
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  Speaker 6: that have you ever been through that You try and
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  Speaker 6: hold your breath.
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  Speaker 3: To the end, pasted out children in the hold your
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  Speaker 3: over a bridge and over a tunnel. A tunnel wasn't
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  Speaker 3: the Yeah, some long bridges as well. Dam would always
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  Speaker 3: slow down just a little bit when me and my
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  Speaker 3: sister were doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, But the tunnel the most recent we're talking about there,
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  Speaker 1: they got a machine specifically made for it in US, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and it dug the whole automatically shipped the dirt out
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  Speaker 1: and then would place the concrete in the circular motion
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  Speaker 1: around the top of the tunnel. Incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Is that kind of what they're doing with the new
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  Speaker 3: rail system that they're building and that kind of the same.
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  Speaker 4: Something water tunnel boring machine And I think it.
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  Speaker 1: Was only boring and it was only designed for that tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: We can't do any other tunnels. Oh, you know what
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  Speaker 1: happens to alice dismantled.
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  Speaker 5: Because you're a little bit emotional and hungover.
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  Speaker 6: That's why you know, when they opened that tunnel, and
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  Speaker 6: like beforehand you could do a walk through, even the
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  Speaker 6: one in the city.
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  Speaker 4: What's the face wonder did.
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  Speaker 5: You do do the walk through?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love tunnels that much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, did you know? But I worked with I.
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  Speaker 6: Worked with people who actually did I I did a
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  Speaker 6: walk through some engineering because I always to work with
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  Speaker 6: those walk through There was hundreds of people.
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  Speaker 5: People love that. The nerds love that. It was boring
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  Speaker 5: as yeah, Alison's boring machine.
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  Speaker 4: I will do it to appease you. It was boring.
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  Speaker 5: I never walked through that.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's funny.
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  Speaker 5: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Looks the same when you're driving, it's a lot longer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I've banged on about this before. But
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  Speaker 3: I remember Dad saying, because we lived in the Wider
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  Speaker 3: Upper you know, to Wellington, you have to go through
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  Speaker 3: the Mttucka, you know, like it's.
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  Speaker 5: A windy road. It's horrible.
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  Speaker 3: And when my dad was late for a flight, Jesus
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  Speaker 3: would feel sick of the back as he's gone talking
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  Speaker 3: about it, I'd be like on the bank of other
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  Speaker 3: cars because we're running, Like but Americans pay back in
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  Speaker 3: the wall. Apparently they offered to build a tunnel through
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  Speaker 3: to Wellington and for some reason, what up Like now
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  Speaker 3: we're good, we're good, we'll do it ourselves. Never never,
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  Speaker 3: It apparently like every time I was like, man, we could.
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  Speaker 4: Have a tunnel Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like we'll do it, and then we're like no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we've got we've got it. You don't clearly wanted to
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  Speaker 3: do it. How long ago was the war? You know,
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  Speaker 3: a long time ago.
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  Speaker 6: Something broken in your house and your husband's like no, no,
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  Speaker 6: I'll get to it.
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  Speaker 4: Do it.
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  Speaker 5: On What up us to do list, build a tunnel.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good life when someone offers to dig your tunnel.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really it's a windy road, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast on tunnels.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have a great weekend.