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Katie Woolf spoke with Winnellie Supermarket Owner Wayne about the incident where staff were injured last night · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is Winnelli Supermarket
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  Speaker 1: owner Wayne.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Wayne. Hello Wayne, what happened last night? Mate?
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  Speaker 3: We just had some people do a snatch grabbers and
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  Speaker 3: alcohol and on the way out they knocked over my
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  Speaker 3: wife and injured her.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne, how is your wife?
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  Speaker 3: She's a bit worse aware, Mate.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the vision and it is it's absolutely shocking,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, seeing them knock your wife
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  Speaker 1: over is really it's mortifying for me, And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know you guys, so I can't imagine how you felt
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  Speaker 1: watching that and knowing what had happened to your wife.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's getting a little bit out of control.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne. How is your wife this morning? In terms of injuries?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, we've we spent a night at the hospital
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  Speaker 3: and with and she's been up, been up the police station,
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  Speaker 3: given statements and she's yeah, she's done a lot of pain,
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  Speaker 3: accivated some Uh, it's yeah, he's in a lot of pain.
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's safe to say she's got the
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  Speaker 1: whole of the territory hoping that she makes a speedy
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  Speaker 1: recovery and.
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  Speaker 2: Hoping that she is all right.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne, What is like what happened in the in the
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  Speaker 1: minutes that before they knocked her over.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, So basically there's they have Well, they were just
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  Speaker 3: walking around checking the fake scoping the fake out, and
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  Speaker 3: then we were asking them for idtail they could bite alcohol,
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  Speaker 3: and then they just took off because they you know,
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  Speaker 3: once you're hear in that idea, the idea, don't.
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  Speaker 2: You Well, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: It's the ground running Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the first time that your supermarket has been
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  Speaker 1: targeted in an incident like this?
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  Speaker 3: This is the first time they've hurt one of the
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  Speaker 3: female staff. It's is a constant thing for us. It's
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  Speaker 3: not it's not our local people. You know, they give
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  Speaker 3: they complain about the narrows flats and bag it and
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  Speaker 3: that sort of thing, but that that's not where the
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  Speaker 3: problems coming from. It's all double The people coming from
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  Speaker 3: the bush are just swarming the area. They move from
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  Speaker 3: area to area.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne, What impact is this having on you guys trying
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  Speaker 1: to run your business?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for a start, it makes this think that everybody
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  Speaker 3: we're going to get hurt every time we try to
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  Speaker 3: we sell alcohol, So we already have very strict conditions
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  Speaker 3: when you buy alcohol from out the supermarket. We still
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  Speaker 3: have the the location restrictions they were in over COVID nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: So for instance, if you're not from that area, yep,
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  Speaker 3: we don't sell it to you. You have to go
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else. And so I mean it caused us to
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  Speaker 3: restrict people buying alcohol ourselves. So we just say no.
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  Speaker 3: We say more NAIs than yes when we're selling yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's like alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Wayane.
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  Speaker 1: At this point in time, I know that the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory Police are as. I understand that they are still
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  Speaker 1: looking for these two offenders, aren't they.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I think they are the police of invent They
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  Speaker 3: put in a really big effort, but they've just run
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  Speaker 3: off their feet. I mean a lot of times we
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  Speaker 3: don't even cause them when we get people, like when
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  Speaker 3: they just do a snatch and grab, we just get
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  Speaker 3: the person, so I don't stick it on a revolving
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  Speaker 3: on a wall of shame, and hopefully they never come
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  Speaker 3: back to the supermarket again. Generally they don't you know,
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  Speaker 3: a tack gups like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you're not alone, you know, this is
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  Speaker 1: a sad part.
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  Speaker 2: I not at the Stuart Park shops.
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  Speaker 1: They've certainly got photos up on the wall where they've
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  Speaker 1: had those similar snatch and grabs. We caught up with
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  Speaker 1: Manual from the Funny bay IgA just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago after his supermarket have been subjected to a
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  Speaker 1: different kind of break in. But at the time he
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  Speaker 1: had said as well that some of his female and
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  Speaker 1: male staff had been assaulted. It's just applorable behavior.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, look there, I don't know, there's not enough
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  Speaker 3: for the police. Who is not enough there? Like they
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  Speaker 3: can't do anything about the people that are doing the problem.
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  Speaker 3: That's just relentless, Wayne. Have you found I actually went
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  Speaker 3: to I actually went to the library the other day
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  Speaker 3: on my day off. I said, in a library and
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  Speaker 3: a librarian was getting verbally abused and nearly attacked from
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  Speaker 3: a drunk person a casual in the library. For God's say,
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  Speaker 3: you can't get any further from alcohol sales space and
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  Speaker 3: than a library.
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  Speaker 1: Your spot on It's exactly right, Wayne, do you I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's a bit of a loaded question. But
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  Speaker 1: do you feel as though the alcohol measures that we've
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  Speaker 1: got in place at the moment are working or are
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  Speaker 1: they making it worse? Or how have you found it
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  Speaker 1: as a business owner?
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  Speaker 3: Look, when they first bought in those things the Royal
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  Speaker 3: commission bullshit. We were. It was like the Royal Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent blame the small supermarkets for the liquor problems.
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  Speaker 3: And it's sort of still like that now. We sat
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  Speaker 3: in numerous meetings with the government about us not not
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  Speaker 3: being the problem, that we only sell a very small
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  Speaker 3: percentage of alcohol. But the ministers at the time when
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  Speaker 3: they or the people we were talking to, completely ignored
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  Speaker 3: the message. They just had a name was like in
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  Speaker 3: a different agenda. They had a plan, and the plan
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  Speaker 3: was to close down all the supermarkets. Now that's the
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  Speaker 3: small supermarkets. Now that's It doesn't seem to be the
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  Speaker 3: same priority now. But I think because of the the
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  Speaker 3: severe liquor restriction and the rest of the Northern territory,
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  Speaker 3: it's driven the problem drinkers to Darwin. And now you
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  Speaker 3: can see we get swarmed. So when the police clamp
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  Speaker 3: down in prep all of a sudden, we just get
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  Speaker 3: swarmed with people, just a group of people. We don't
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  Speaker 3: serve an alcohol and we have a big problems with
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  Speaker 3: arguments and stress and all that sort of thing to
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  Speaker 3: a big group of people move on. But then they
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  Speaker 3: move them from Casuarina and they're back to an alley again.
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  Speaker 2: So we're just moving the problem.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, it's the same people. They just relentlessly moved from
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  Speaker 3: place to place to trying get alcohol. Well, Wayne, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't even matter if you don't serve them alcohol. I
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  Speaker 3: don't even know where they get their alcohol to cause
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  Speaker 3: the problems in our area from. But we actually every
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  Speaker 3: time we sell a cast now, we write the person's
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  Speaker 3: name down next to the cast. I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: you the galley of it, but we write down the
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  Speaker 3: person's name when we sell a car, and they can
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  Speaker 3: only buy two cars to day, so they can't buy
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  Speaker 3: any more alcohol than those two cars. Now days when
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  Speaker 3: we have alcohol problems, I can look on the list
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  Speaker 3: and we've sold six cars and we're getting smashed with
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  Speaker 3: groups of drunk people and we've sold six cars. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how to You can't even explain that.
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  Speaker 1: No, Wayne, oh mate, I'm really sorry for what happened
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  Speaker 1: to you guys yesterday, and I'm particularly sorry to your wife.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just us. I mean, look look at night
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  Speaker 3: with supermarket. Yeah, they don't sell cars, yet the big
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  Speaker 3: group of people sit outside the supermarket going to cashman
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  Speaker 3: birders get alone, go to another shop nearby the self cars,
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  Speaker 3: buy the big ship ton of cars. Then they sit
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  Speaker 3: outside not with Supermarket and just relentlessly go in and
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  Speaker 3: out of Not With super Market like it's their own face.
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  Speaker 3: The fight. Yeah, you know, and they actually put it.
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  Speaker 3: I talking to the owner the other day because I
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  Speaker 3: was complaining about, you know, the issues in our area,
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  Speaker 3: and he was telling us what was happening over there,
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  Speaker 3: like he doesn't even sell the alcohol it's causing the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, But they're getting their heads that they like.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what we tell the government, they were still
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  Speaker 3: blaming us for this issue. They won't listen to us.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne, we are going to have to wrap up. Mate.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you talking to us this morning and
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  Speaker 1: also highlighting the broader issue that this is, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we're all very aware of it. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to some of the measures that you're
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  Speaker 1: taking to try to prevent this alcohol abuse, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like you're going well and above what is expected. Yet
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  Speaker 1: you've still been subjected to this terrible situation overnight. Wayne,
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  Speaker 1: Please pass on our thoughts to your wife. I hope
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  Speaker 1: that she recovers quickly. I really appreciate you talking to
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  Speaker 1: me today.
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  Speaker 3: Are seeking Thanks mate,