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Speaker 1: This is the Fits and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that we have had a

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Speaker 1: bad start to Christmas, but can it be that a

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree is cursed? There's a funny feeling around our

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Speaker 1: Christmas set up at home. We've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: stockings hanging from the fireplace. It's all very picturesque, grind James.

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Speaker 1: And we've got a beautiful tree picked up me, big

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Speaker 1: tree from Tony and you use real trees, real trees.

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Speaker 1: So the smell of pine is Heaven just reminds me

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Speaker 1: of the childhood. And you know, the old man gets

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Speaker 1: sentimental about the family gathering and presence under the tree

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Speaker 1: and a couple of Christmas thoughts. So anyway, last night

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Speaker 1: there was an issue. I'm I'm going to go to

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Speaker 1: last night. First, there was a sound that woke Lisa up.

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Speaker 2: We're obviously in secretary come.

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Speaker 3: In the window like that.

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Speaker 1: So she runs down the hallway.

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Speaker 2: To me quick, You've got to get up.

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Speaker 1: Something's happened downstairs. I think there's someone here. Okay, do

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Speaker 1: you remember I'm there with my mask on for sleep

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Speaker 1: up near So I've got to take my mask off.

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Speaker 1: So I'm annoyed now and my chin strap and my mouthguard.

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Speaker 1: So I have to remove.

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Speaker 2: Oh body, and you think I'm sick.

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Speaker 1: Your body is a wonderland. So I've got to remove

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Speaker 1: all this attractive apparatus from my head. And then I

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Speaker 1: quickly jumped to the floor and Fitzy, I get the

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Speaker 1: baseball bat out from under the bed.

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Speaker 2: I've still got that the one that come with blood

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Speaker 2: on it already, horror movie.

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Speaker 1: I marched down the stairs. I said, honey, you stay

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Speaker 1: up here. You're the last line of defense. If I

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Speaker 1: can't get them and I go down, then you're going

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Speaker 1: to have to save the kids. You're like the sacrificial element.

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Speaker 1: I go down, bat loaded so over the shoulder, ready

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Speaker 1: to swing. What's happened is a stockings for and from

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Speaker 1: the fireplace hit a ball ball that smashed on the floor.

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Speaker 1: And that was just a weird turn of events. So

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Speaker 1: I said, it's all right, honey, I worried out. What

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Speaker 1: go back to bed and save yourself. You don't need

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Speaker 1: to worry about the kids.

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Speaker 2: We got glass ballbles.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a couple of glass bables. We put

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Speaker 1: them high so the kids don't knock them. But it

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Speaker 1: was obviously high enough to then be hit by the

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Speaker 1: stocking as it fell off the tree. It fell off

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Speaker 1: the fireplace. Anyway, that was one thing. You talk about,

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Speaker 1: the beautiful smell of a real Christmas tree, and I

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Speaker 1: love that. But all of a sudden, since the weekend,

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Speaker 1: it's been a strange sort of smell around.

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Speaker 3: The tree just doesn't it just doesn't smell the way

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Speaker 3: it's meant to, because a good tree will fill a

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Speaker 3: room and you walk into the house and go, oh

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Speaker 3: my god, Christmas is here.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sniffing around trying to work out what's going on.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe one of the Christmas decorations is moldy.

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Speaker 1: But it was that kind of moldy smell. Worked out

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Speaker 1: what it was. Somehow a small rat has got into

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Speaker 1: the container at the bottom, like the Christmas stand, and

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Speaker 1: it's drowned in the water inside the Christmas stand and

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Speaker 1: started to rot.

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Speaker 2: So while you put it up, or once you put

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Speaker 2: it away last year.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, because I wasn't there when I put

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Speaker 1: it up, because I washed the tub out. Yeah, wash

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Speaker 1: the tub out. And then there's a little spike at

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Speaker 1: theottom and you stick the tree on the spike. And

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Speaker 1: then you bring it inside. So somehow a rat has

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Speaker 1: come into the house and got it into the container

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Speaker 1: that was then full of water and drowned.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's a few rats around Rose Bay. Was it

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Speaker 2: a council member or was it a local politician?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't check out the rat close

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Speaker 1: enough to know which person it was from the area. Gotcha,

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Speaker 1: But I then had to fish it out, So I

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Speaker 1: did the dog poo style trick of hand in the

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Speaker 1: plastic bag to drag a rat out to put into

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Speaker 1: the bin, Open the windows and pump up the smell

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Speaker 1: of pine. Guys, because it stinks in here.

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Speaker 3: That's a sign. It feels like a really bad's dounder Christ.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Santa has left that for you thinking, or that

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Speaker 2: could be a sign of the year that you've had

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Speaker 2: you rat? Is it the year of the rat? Tom?

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Speaker 2: I thought it Wasn't it a dragon? Ash does? Ashnight?

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Speaker 2: Does anyone know what year year of the Oh? Well,

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Speaker 2: of course if you knew this, But it is, of

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Speaker 2: course the year of the wood Dragon.

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Speaker 1: I've heard of the mud dragon.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about the.

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Speaker 2: Wood wood dragon. Yeah, it's just a drag and he's

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Speaker 2: a Carpenter really good with wood. Next year, it's so

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Speaker 2: hoping that things are better with It's the year of

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Speaker 2: the snake, fingers.

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Speaker 3: Crossed, maybe a snake.

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Speaker 1: A couple of my Christmas speed ruined already.

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Speaker 2: But if I was you, if the kids are playing,

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Speaker 2: if Jack's playing up, I'd wrap up the rat and

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Speaker 2: I'd delivered under the trade for it.

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