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Speaker 1: The and with with Kate, which podcast. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about a couple of pets that we've

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Speaker 1: got at our place. Haven't made this announcement. And you

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Speaker 1: did this not long ago on the show Fits. You

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Speaker 1: surprised us when the Fitzgerald family had bought a brand

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Speaker 1: new kitten.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I haven't even spoken about Loony Layah.

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Speaker 2: It's it's we got her from the RSPCA. So she's

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Speaker 2: a rescue k and she's a new little addition to

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Speaker 2: the family because Lennie wanted a cat the whole time.

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Speaker 2: And now Luna sleeps with Lennie in his bedroom.

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Speaker 1: And cute is that? I love that. I mean there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of talk about cats at our place. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of demand about a dog.

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Speaker 3: I think you're going to get a dog, and then

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Speaker 3: you shut that whole thing down.

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Speaker 2: Shut the dog.

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Speaker 1: Down, Shut the dog Downroud of you, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Because I don't think I mean, you see not that

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Speaker 3: you've seen fragile, but I mean I just didn't think

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Speaker 3: that adding a puppy dog to your load would have helped.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it would have been like a therapy dog. You know,

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Speaker 1: those dogs at a sort of mental support and you

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Speaker 1: can fly.

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Speaker 3: With them and they are they're older and they are trained.

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Speaker 3: A puppy needs A puppy needs your mental.

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Speaker 1: Support for a support dog.

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Speaker 2: That was your nickname in high school too, the dog.

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Speaker 1: No I was never called support dog instead of that.

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Speaker 1: What's exciting is we got we got about two thousand

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Speaker 1: tadpoles in the front pond. Oh yes, it is so excited.

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Speaker 3: That is very exciting, believe it.

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Speaker 1: Normally and traditionally it's been a mossie breeding program where

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Speaker 1: we supply mozzies to the rest of Sydney because we've

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Speaker 1: tried to drain this thing. We even drilled a foot

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Speaker 1: down and can't drain this damn pond.

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Speaker 2: It's the work. We had to get rid of a

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Speaker 2: water feature at the back of our place in Bao Main.

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Speaker 2: You know what you can do if you get in

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Speaker 2: with the garbos King Dazzer. We got them with King Dazer.

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Speaker 2: We ripped out the water feat and he's stuck it

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Speaker 2: into the back of the garbage dazz bag. You should

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Speaker 2: have heard that go down. Came when he brought it down,

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Speaker 2: made a hell of a noise, but he got it

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Speaker 2: in there, King Daser.

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Speaker 1: So the mosis have been biting everybody around the neighborhood forever,

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Speaker 1: and no one said thank you. But the program has

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Speaker 1: been going really well.

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Speaker 3: What about the joy of tadpoles? I think it's wonderful,

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Speaker 3: especially with kids of your age.

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Speaker 1: Well, what we've been doing too is I took the

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Speaker 1: flywire off the window, and then we sink the flywire

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Speaker 1: into the pond, and then after about five minutes, you

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Speaker 1: bring it up at each end and you can see

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Speaker 1: how many tadpoles you've got. And some of that let's

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Speaker 1: flapping around, flapping around like an untrained seal on the flywire.

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Speaker 1: Some of them have got little legs, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Here's the circle of the circle of life. Eat the mossy,

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Speaker 1: turn into a tadpole, then you become a frog.

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Speaker 2: So proud to have a couple of toads in your backyard.

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Speaker 2: Being one yourself, it's like looking into a mirror.

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Speaker 3: I think you're going to be a bit more clever

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Speaker 3: with the toad gear. But you just called him a toad.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty clear to me. I read the insult.

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Speaker 3: Being one yourself swicker.

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Speaker 1: So what was interesting? And I love my wife so much,

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Speaker 1: but she put on the old Instagram a couple of tadpoles,

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Speaker 1: which is great. Someone DMed her and said, well, I

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Speaker 1: hope you're looking after those tadpoles. That's another question. When

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Speaker 1: is life worth caring about? Like we don't worry about ants,

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Speaker 1: we don't worry about flies. Is tadpole life to care about?

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Speaker 3: Do you just say we don't worry about ants?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that God might be walking mate. If you

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Speaker 1: were worried about ants, have to introduce.

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Speaker 2: A couple of fire ants into your backunden ones.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just going to drop that down, because can

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Speaker 3: I say a man who says we don't worry about ants,

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Speaker 3: that tells me a lot about them.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not afraid to shoot a fly with the

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Speaker 1: salt gun. I do a lot of that around the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: So the tadpole life. Someone's d on Instagram and said, tadpoles,

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Speaker 1: that's so exciting. I hope you're feeding them correctly on

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Speaker 1: baby masses, wiggling around in the water, that's what they

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Speaker 1: do that. The person then went on to mention the

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Speaker 1: tadpoles should be fed mince meat. Are you talking about? What?

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: So I get home and you start eating, so I've got.

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Speaker 1: He's pretending I'm now still a toad eating mince meat?

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Speaker 3: Is that a toad eating.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what they said Simpson's reference, So neither did.

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Speaker 1: My wife is in the front yard with some prime

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Speaker 1: mince meat, extraline, extraline cooked that she's bought. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: and she's dropping the mince meat into the pond. You've

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Speaker 1: got rotten, You've rotten to feed the tadpoles. Have you've

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Speaker 1: seen the credit card bill? Have you seen the cost

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Speaker 1: of living? Do you know what it takes to keep

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Speaker 1: this house? I said, have a look around, and I

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Speaker 1: ask yourself the question what makes this work?

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Speaker 3: Because I would love my husband if I had one

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Speaker 3: to speak to me that way in my front.

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Speaker 1: Mince meat to feed tadpoles is not in the budget.

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Speaker 1: What sort of tadpoles are these? They're going to end

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Speaker 1: up with gout, They're going to end up wearing a

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Speaker 1: suit of the races.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Why are you wasting our money on something that really

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Speaker 1: do we care about its life form?

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Speaker 3: Frogs are very important and they're on the brink of extinction. Generally,

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Speaker 3: lots of shut up to different kinds they are. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get bogged down in the hate

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Speaker 3: toad discussion. But frogs need.

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Speaker 1: Our help, Fitz. Do you know what I love about this?

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Speaker 1: Kate Richie has so much that when she came over

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Speaker 1: on Friday night, she took the jar of them home,

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Speaker 1: had left the lid on the jar, and they all died.

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