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Katie Woolf spoke with Producer Ronnie and Matt Hepworth for his last chat on air · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce main dowin
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  Speaker 1: homes own, Stuart Highway, Berrima.
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  Speaker 2: It is just on eleven thirty or just after and
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  Speaker 2: as promised, joining me in the studio right now. Mattie Hepworth,
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  Speaker 2: our news director, Good morning to you, Maddie, Good morning
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  Speaker 2: kat and Ronnie.
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  Speaker 3: Our producer, Good morning, Ronnie Honey.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know that it is Maddi Hepworth's last day today,
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  Speaker 2: and really we couldn't let him go without putting together
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  Speaker 2: a bit of an audio tribute for him. So without
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  Speaker 2: further ado, we might we might get straight into it.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen, Matthew Hepworth, news director, news god, reporter
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  Speaker 2: of all things news. There are so many reasons why
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  Speaker 2: you'll be missed, but I wanted to take our listeners
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  Speaker 2: for a walk down memory lane, like the time he
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  Speaker 2: came home from a trip into state and told me
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  Speaker 2: about some of the interesting sight scene you'd done.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that you went to I went to your
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  Speaker 1: book club wilfy a.
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  Speaker 3: Book club aka also the Strippers.
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  Speaker 4: So we had dinner on Saturday night and so on.
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  Speaker 2: Say you know, when you tell me something like that,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going.
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  Speaker 5: To embarras you.
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  Speaker 4: Someone said let's go for a drink after dinner. So
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  Speaker 4: we're wandering along the main street in Hamilton. We saw
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  Speaker 4: a bar called the book Club and we thought, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that'd be a nice you know, that sounds like a
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  Speaker 4: nice place to go. You might be able to get
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  Speaker 4: a nice glass of red, maybe you know, a nice whiskey.
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  Speaker 4: So we went there and turns out the book Club
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  Speaker 4: he's a strip club.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like fun to me.
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  Speaker 4: Well was in new it was a family all day
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  Speaker 4: as well as to think Karlie was.
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  Speaker 1: There with all ow family and we're like, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is weird.
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  Speaker 2: Oh the wolves would have been like, right, oh, here
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  Speaker 2: we are.
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  Speaker 3: We all know you love a good political yarn.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't give too much detail to our listeners
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  Speaker 2: about your genuine love of Julie Bishop, but we know
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  Speaker 2: you're a big fan of Christopher Pine and Matt Canavan.
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  Speaker 1: Let's compare the pair. I'm a fixer. How did you?
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  Speaker 4: I fixed it by funding it in another way, which
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  Speaker 4: you'll find out in the budget.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know he got in there and just
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  Speaker 1: solved the problem. And that's what he's like to do.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a problem solverer. He's the problem solver.
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  Speaker 3: Problem solver of fixer.
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  Speaker 2: You've been known to take life advice from convat scarlets.
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  Speaker 4: My favorite though, was when he was talking about lights
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  Speaker 4: being installed across three Darwin suburban ovals and he had
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  Speaker 4: a word of advice to people once the lights are installed.
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  Speaker 1: He had this piece of advice, I want people out
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  Speaker 1: of their houses.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want sitting in front television after dinner getting fat.
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  Speaker 1: Get out and with your life.
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  Speaker 4: CON's advice, Yes, CON's advice is what we might have
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  Speaker 4: to call it, so you know, you know, if you
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  Speaker 4: call Con, you know what I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Get art and Doushart with your life.
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  Speaker 3: Excellent stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you dish out your own interesting advice amongst the headlines.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're not online, you can go to these
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  Speaker 4: places and events to get online.
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  Speaker 1: What are you laughing at?
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  Speaker 3: Good on your Maddie Headworth, What are you laughing at?
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  Speaker 6: It?
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  Speaker 2: Just thinking about you telling people for more information if
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  Speaker 2: you don't know how to be online, to get on
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  Speaker 2: to do it. Some may not know, but you enjoy
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  Speaker 2: a bit of reality TV, but sometimes reveal a bit much.
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  Speaker 3: He's Matt was that his name? He was the virgin
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  Speaker 3: and then his wife basically tell him that she was
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  Speaker 3: into some pretty wild stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and five people asked if that was that was
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  Speaker 1: me on the show?
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  Speaker 3: What is wrong with us?
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  Speaker 1: Love to sound joking too? Anyway? How about the weather?
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  Speaker 1: How about the weather?
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  Speaker 2: Time?
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  Speaker 3: The weather is coming next?
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  Speaker 4: That's good, you'll probably do that then, Maddie, hepworth good
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  Speaker 4: on you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks said lines.
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  Speaker 2: You've been known to deliver way more than the headlines,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even fabricate a few.
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  Speaker 4: I got a text before you know you loocause sometimes
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  Speaker 4: we do song requests and dedications and this one said
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  Speaker 4: from Michael to Kenny, and this was the song that
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  Speaker 4: they wanted to play from like dedicated to to Kenny.
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  Speaker 4: So I said it said, yeah, this text was from
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  Speaker 4: Michael and it said could you please play this to Kenny.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I struggled to believe it as well. It's been quite
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  Speaker 1: on the start. Struggled to believe a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: things that come out of my mouth.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you'd come out of politicians.
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  Speaker 1: Now well depends on that of the week it is.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so there you go.
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  Speaker 4: Love song dedications from Michael to Kenny.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: You definitely spice the headlines up for a.
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  Speaker 7: Laugh rideshare app Ola is making its way to the
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  Speaker 7: or the territory Ila. They'll join a number of other
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  Speaker 7: players in the market, including Uber, High, Oscar, and Sheba.
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  Speaker 7: Ala is offering an introductory commission fee of seven point
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  Speaker 7: five percent to drivers who start up by New Years.
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  Speaker 2: Also thirty You say it even in a serious news bullets,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd like you to say it in that way.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Hollah is also offering a thirty percent discount for new
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  Speaker 4: riders as well.
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  Speaker 1: Hola goes live early next.
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  Speaker 2: Year, sometimes to the dismay of our producer Ronnie.
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  Speaker 1: A research tour.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Yes, I'm strut junket.
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to find the toilet song and instead
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  Speaker 4: I found an ad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, junk at junket, Yes, a junket for your junk.
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  Speaker 1: I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: Some could assume it is.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 3: You better read the headlines out to his many.
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  Speaker 1: I probably should do that.
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  Speaker 3: We've revealed our crutches. Crutch words.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't put a microphone out by mel
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  Speaker 4: there her crutch words for late nights only, not even no,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't even wouldn't put them at midnight. It's like
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  Speaker 4: being on a ship. She's sending them cheapate like a pirate. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: amongst other you've lost her mate, Oh dear, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Tired. So that always makes things a bit funnier for
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  Speaker 2: Mel said, even her mother is horrified with her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure my mother is at different times of swell, Mel,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: We've heard you rap.
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  Speaker 1: You played some M and M the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know me, I love a bit of nineties
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  Speaker 2: or two early two thousands rap.
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  Speaker 4: I'm expecting coming out next we'll hear from two Back
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  Speaker 4: and Biggie Smalls.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a bit of black straight Remember no Diggity? You
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  Speaker 2: know that song, No Diggity.
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  Speaker 3: We better stop or our listeners will turn off.
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  Speaker 4: Probably the first time I've come on to do a
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  Speaker 4: news report and said I like the way you work it.
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  Speaker 1: No dignity got to back it up.
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  Speaker 2: You deliver the news each and every day with absolute professionalism.
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  Speaker 3: It's apparently a fight between two.
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  Speaker 2: Years seven students at the school in Catherine, which has
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  Speaker 2: led to there being a lockdown.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently, so we'll wait here.
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  Speaker 2: I have not been able to have that verified at
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  Speaker 2: this point in time, and I did not have that information.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, bless you, my mic off there right, we've.
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  Speaker 3: Got a bit of hay fever in the building at
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  Speaker 3: the moment. Could be because it's so cold in here
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: But more than anything, you've brought a smile to our
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  Speaker 2: faces and made us laugh. Oh, there's plenty of those,
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  Speaker 2: so into stage as well, some interesting names.
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  Speaker 1: My folks live in Cairns, just outside of Yorkie's Nob.
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  Speaker 6: And on that night on Yorkie's Snob you can in
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  Speaker 6: trouble again, be in.
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  Speaker 3: Trouble, Maddie lost. We better wrap it up there. Good
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  Speaker 3: on your mate.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you on Monday. I'll see.
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  Speaker 3: Maddie Hepworth. You will be missed. Oh, Maddie Hepworth. What
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  Speaker 3: a journey to take us on there this morning. Do
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  Speaker 3: you like the way none of it really involved the
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  Speaker 3: actual news?
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  Speaker 1: That was great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun because you know,
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  Speaker 4: when I started here three years ago, the you know,
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  Speaker 4: the job, Descree was to read the news for the
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  Speaker 4: breakfast show and with you, and you know, from that,
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  Speaker 4: over the last three years it's blossomed into something you know,
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  Speaker 4: just so much more. You know, we've had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of fun and honestly, it's been the highlight of my days.
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  Speaker 4: Is not just yet being a newsreader, but the banter
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  Speaker 4: we have sometimes a lot of the time highly inappropriate.
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  Speaker 8: Well all the time, as I don't know, so how
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  Speaker 8: many times have I actually screamed and you could hear
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  Speaker 8: me going mine?
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  Speaker 1: What do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Tell you what? Maddie.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to miss you so much, but our
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  Speaker 2: listeners are going to missue as well, and we have
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  Speaker 2: been inundated with messages from our listeners.
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  Speaker 3: Ronnie's got some of those for you now. Yeah, one said,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, Ronnie.
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  Speaker 8: Could you please pass on many my thanks and best
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  Speaker 8: wishes to Maddie for the great service he has given
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  Speaker 8: and the outstanding job he has done for listeners two
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  Speaker 8: one o four nine during his years with Territory Radio.
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  Speaker 8: I hope things go well for him and his family
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  Speaker 8: as I moved to Brizzy. Thank you to Katie and
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  Speaker 8: yourself for the way you look after listeners. You three
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  Speaker 8: make nine to twelve Monday to Friday the best for listening, formation,
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  Speaker 8: exploration of issues. Regards, Henry Gray, Hello, Katie. Not sure
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  Speaker 8: if you saw red this the other day, but I
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  Speaker 8: just want to say to Maddie. I'm really going to
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  Speaker 8: miss you very much. Your sense of humor, professionalism and fun.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if they feel the same exactly right.
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  Speaker 8: An interesting chance you, Okatie have if I get to
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  Speaker 8: talk to you before you go.
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  Speaker 3: Maddie.
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  Speaker 8: Best of luck and all your future endeavors. That's from
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  Speaker 8: Jodie and Woodruff. Hi, Katie. With Maddie leaving, you're going
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  Speaker 8: to have who is going to be the new king
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  Speaker 8: of conisms? I can't even talk the king of the Conisms.
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  Speaker 8: Have a great future, Matt, and you'll be sorely missed.
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  Speaker 8: Enjoy bris Vegas. I'll look if any one here like
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  Speaker 8: Thanks for your news and talk fest with Katie.
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  Speaker 3: You will be missed.
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  Speaker 8: We will miss you, Maddie and best wishes for the future.
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  Speaker 8: Regards Dundee Ron. Hey, Matt, this is the second time
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  Speaker 8: you've left us. I really like this one as the
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  Speaker 8: second time you've left us. If I'm right, it was
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  Speaker 8: back in Pete Davies' days, but you came back. They
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  Speaker 8: say home is where your heart is, So this is
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  Speaker 8: not goodbye, but catch you against You will be missed.
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  Speaker 3: All the best. When NOONI there are so many messages Maddie,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I posted some photos up of us obviously on my
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  Speaker 2: Katie Wolf page overnight and look, Alex has said, the
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  Speaker 2: depression is real. I listen every day that I can,
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  Speaker 2: and you and Mattie are forced together. Anyway, we can
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  Speaker 2: force him into the newsroom and lock the door, slide
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  Speaker 2: food under the door until the premises, until he promises
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  Speaker 2: to stay.
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  Speaker 3: Many of us are going to miss hearing him.
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  Speaker 2: On the air up here, and he said, like my
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  Speaker 2: Chrissy conisms, I hope you've got some cracker hip.
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  Speaker 3: Isms, and we delivered.
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  Speaker 2: You are welcome, Alex, Yeah, hashtag You're welcome. But look, Maddie,
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  Speaker 2: it goes without saying, mate, that you are going to
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  Speaker 2: be absolutely missed.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I have to try my best not to
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  Speaker 3: shed a tear.
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  Speaker 2: You are a wonderful friend, You're a wonderful person, and
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  Speaker 2: you've been an absolute pleasure to work with. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to miss you immensely. I know it's hard for you
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  Speaker 2: to say goodbye to us. I know that it's one
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  Speaker 2: of the difficult things when you leave somewhere. But we're
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  Speaker 2: super proud of you, mate, and we're really proud of
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  Speaker 2: how well you've done.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you'll know, I said, I I'll keep it together.
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  Speaker 4: I will one of us has to. No, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a big part of radio is chemistry. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I've worked in different roles and different on air teams,
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  Speaker 4: and you know what's really important between anyone on air
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  Speaker 4: is chemistry. And yeah, over the last three years, but
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  Speaker 4: between you and I, KD And and Ronnie are part
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  Speaker 4: of the team now and Melan Steph over the years
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  Speaker 4: as well, we've we've really developed that and I would
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  Speaker 4: like to think that reflects on air, like what you see,
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  Speaker 4: you know, with us, and and you know what, at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, we're not even a non
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  Speaker 4: air team is you know, it's your show and I
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  Speaker 4: just come in to read the news. But over the
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  Speaker 4: last three years we've developed such a wonderful friendship and relationship.
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  Speaker 4: And it just happens to be that we've got two
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  Speaker 4: microphones in front of us and that people can listen
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  Speaker 4: to some of our banter. But you know, our friendship
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  Speaker 4: care he's on beyond the microphone. These conversations that we
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  Speaker 4: have and or have a laugh, that's the conversations in
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  Speaker 4: the producers area when we go to get coffee on
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  Speaker 4: the phone, you know it continues as well. And I
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  Speaker 4: never imagined I would have, you know, ended up back
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  Speaker 4: in Darwin after three years, four years away sorry in Brisbane,
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  Speaker 4: which you know is where I'm going back to. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, I really had no idea what to expect
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  Speaker 4: walking into this job again. I was somewhat restarting my career.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, just a little bit of that audio before
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  Speaker 4: of the you know, the chemistry that we've built up
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  Speaker 4: over the last three years, is that what you call it?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's just some friends having a laugh, getting the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to have a laugh and everybody, whether it's good
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  Speaker 2: for you or bad.
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  Speaker 4: For you, you've heard it, yeah, Lansa, And what just
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  Speaker 4: happens to be that you know, we have two microphones
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  Speaker 4: in front of us, and you know we've we've never
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  Speaker 4: set out really to you know, we're not comedians. We're
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're just journalists who love to have a
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  Speaker 4: laugh and be a little bit inappropriate at times.
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  Speaker 1: So a little bit I did know the junket one
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  Speaker 1: was going to be in the so I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, make sure we included it all. Maddie Hepplers.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been, Yeah, it's been absolutely wonderful working with you.
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  Speaker 8: I know that when I was looking at coming back,
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  Speaker 8: you were the person that I sat down for the
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  Speaker 8: very first time. We went out and had a coffee
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  Speaker 8: and it was fantastic and I felt even at that
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  Speaker 8: stage that pretty much you welcomed me with a big,
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  Speaker 8: warm hug. You are going to be missed and it
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  Speaker 8: sucksual leaving. I don't really like it. And if i'd
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  Speaker 8: seen that text message before yet, you would be locked
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  Speaker 8: in the news, tucked under without until you said you're
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  Speaker 8: going to start for six. You do anything for six
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  Speaker 8: back in northerns digression.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Maddie, we are going to have to wrap it up, mate.
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  Speaker 2: We really appreciate everything you've done over the years.
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  Speaker 3: We wish you all the very best in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that everything works out incredibly well for you.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great step up for you and your career.
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  Speaker 2: But the door's always open made if it doesn't, well
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  Speaker 2: welcome you back with open arms.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And can I just say thank you to everyone that's
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  Speaker 4: sent in those really kind messages today And so we
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  Speaker 4: don't do this for the fame or anything like that
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  Speaker 4: or to be you know, put up on a pedestal.
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  Speaker 1: And loved. We do it because we love our job,
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  Speaker 1: and like.
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  Speaker 4: I said, there just happens to be two microphones in
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  Speaker 4: front of us and a few people listening along the way.
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  Speaker 4: So thank you to everyone that's sent in all that
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  Speaker 4: lovely feedback, as it's not why we do the job,
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  Speaker 4: but I really appreciate that we've managed to entertain and
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  Speaker 4: inform some people along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Maddie hip Worth, thank you for keeping us up to
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  Speaker 2: date with all the local news.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you and for all the us.
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  Speaker 4: In the words of Damian Hale, always a pleasure, never
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  Speaker 4: at your