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Speaker 1: App Got anything Good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell

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Speaker 1: show podcast. Saturday Night.

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Speaker 2: I'm watching TV right and I hear this horrific noise

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Speaker 2: and I realize it's a rat so close under the foreboard.

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Speaker 1: I've got my feet on. I felt like it was

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Speaker 1: actually going to break through and eat me.

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Speaker 2: They've got those big the noise and it just sounded massive.

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Speaker 3: Isn't rat season? Because no, Seriously, I know we.

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Speaker 2: Have like Shark week on the Scummy Channel, rat season,

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Speaker 2: favorite season.

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Speaker 1: The Channel seven show Tonight a rat season, Shane.

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Speaker 3: Last night, I was sitting at his or in his office,

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Speaker 3: just doing some stuff on the laptop, and the window

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Speaker 3: blind was upright. It was nighttime, and I could have

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Speaker 3: sworn that I heard someone tapping on the window, and

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Speaker 3: I thought, oh, I think there's someone at the window.

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Speaker 3: This is really scary. So I just called out, hey, Chris,

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Speaker 3: can you come up here like urgently? And I said,

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Speaker 3: I think there's someone at the window.

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Speaker 1: Job in this life, isn't it to be called up

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Speaker 1: the frontline as cannon. So does that look? Can you

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Speaker 1: come out there and see what is? Yeah, it might

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Speaker 1: be an arm gang. I just go out, Yeah, my slippers. Hello,

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Speaker 1: anyone here but to chop me out? My family make

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Speaker 1: a coick getaway.

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Speaker 3: The dog was outside, he said, well, Presley hasn't even bark.

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Speaker 3: Trust me, if there was someone in the backyard, he'd

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Speaker 3: go ballistic. And he goes, it's probably just the rats

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Speaker 3: because we have like.

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Speaker 4: Those casual with that noisy, Like.

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Speaker 2: This thing was making a hell of a noisy. Screened

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Speaker 2: out to my wife. She starts screaming, like, I don't

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Speaker 2: even sleep.

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Speaker 1: Pet to sleep. That's when they get busy. They're not

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Speaker 1: getting busy on me.

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Speaker 4: I thought you both would have a clean house.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think you know that cruel space you will

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Speaker 1: have here? Yeah, what do you actually do you do?

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Speaker 1: We have to go and like get a rat catch well, I.

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Speaker 3: Said to Chris, I think the time has come that

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Speaker 3: we need to get someone pros.

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Speaker 1: A professional.

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Speaker 4: His job is to catch in the room.

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Speaker 1: You have pest control.

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Speaker 2: People don't like and rats and mice.

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Speaker 1: You watch out for termite, but.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't hear a termite munch bunching.

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Speaker 1: No, No, you wouldn't know, You're not like a rat.

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Speaker 2: No, this thing was like, yeah, it was just like

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Speaker 2: and I'm not. I was watching a very violent show

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Speaker 2: and I felt I never felt more unmanly. I was

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Speaker 2: watching Tom Hardy beat someone with a knuckle douster. I'm

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Speaker 2: so scared right now.

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Speaker 1: What is it as well? When you hear an animal

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Speaker 1: like that the hairs, something happens.

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Speaker 2: There's an ice feeling you have and it's the hair,

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Speaker 2: literally hairs.

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Speaker 1: In the back of your neck.

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Speaker 4: Apparently it's an evolutionary thing from the plague. Is why

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Speaker 4: humans have such a sort of visceral reaction rats, because

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Speaker 4: we've developed a fear because they, you know, almost wiped

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Speaker 1: Anyway, how do they almost wipe us out the plague

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Speaker 1: back in the day of course? Anyway, can someone out me?

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Speaker 2: Do I get the rat cat trout or can I

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Speaker 2: just go to buddings and get like traps wraps?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but get in the rooms.

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Speaker 1: I'm not getting on a cruise space forget it. You

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Speaker 1: know you need I'm going to go well or Lady Pats.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty five thirteen fifty five twenty two. I'm

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Speaker 2: not ringing up pets Control, but we'll go and send

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Speaker 2: a man around. You know, if I see a chick

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Speaker 2: out the front, there's no way and the rats won't

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Speaker 2: take us seriously either. No offense, ladies, are Christian Donald

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Speaker 2: show go on podcast Saturday night watching TV that says

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Speaker 2: horrific noise under the floorboards under my foot.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a rat sounds massive, just so aggressive.

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Speaker 2: And also you know what it was the confidence leazinness

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Speaker 2: it was obviously trying to chew the wood to get

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Speaker 1: To me specifically, this case coming for me.

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Speaker 2: Guys, if I'm not here tomorrow, that the rat has

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Speaker 2: got sorry, Christian, Yeah, Christian. This time of year rats

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Speaker 2: start to nest so they can start breeding and have

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Speaker 2: sap otherwise they start doing it in the floorboards.

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Speaker 1: Christian. And imagine how my more rats you can be

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Speaker 1: screwed in my house and I even paying.

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Speaker 3: Wrench so they do have a breeding season. I thought

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Speaker 3: they'd be like rabbits where they just breed constantly.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is why we need to we need

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Speaker 2: ins this S Morning Team. Dave's on the line, Dave,

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Speaker 2: what can you say?

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Speaker 1: Rats? Listen?

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Speaker 2: It's like it's like, I know you're a fan. You

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Speaker 2: don't need to actually do radio like them fumbling around

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Speaker 2: that you were the State Furry Day.

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Speaker 5: Yes there there. Look, I've had recent problems too with rats,

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Speaker 1: Well, vampires.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, I'll try anything at the moment,

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Speaker 2: so do you know if it works? So it's citrus fruits.

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Speaker 5: Well, I've seen citrus fruits being demolished by rats, so

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Speaker 5: I'm not so sure on the citrus fruit from you

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Speaker 5: yet to see what happens with garlic and onions, but

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Speaker 5: hopefully that means you don't see. But failing all that,

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Speaker 5: there's also the sticky mats, which is not very nice

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Speaker 5: way with You place the sticky mats down and the

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Speaker 5: rats get stuck to it, and then there's obviously disposing

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Speaker 5: of them. That's the least humin way I'm tipping. But

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Speaker 5: I haven't been down this path, So I can't honestly say,

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Speaker 5: what about a.

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Speaker 3: Good old dose of rat sack?

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Speaker 5: Well, if you've got pets the rat sack then could

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Speaker 3: Oh and middle children. Yeah, that's a good.

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Speaker 5: Point, and children as well. You know, like that's how

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Speaker 5: going feed on whoever's it.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like Dave's drunk and some of that rat sack

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Speaker 2: himself actually, Kelly, Good morning, Kelly, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 6: Morning guys.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Yeah, good to have you. A nice weekend. So

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Speaker 1: I've got a rats problem. What do I need to do?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 6: When we first moved into our house a few years ago,

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Speaker 6: we had rats in the ceiling and yes, the person

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Speaker 6: to put baits around, did nothing, and then I can't

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Speaker 6: remember who told me, some old guy. I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: Where I was, the mummy Davey we just had on.

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Speaker 7: It might have been Dave.

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Speaker 6: They they also ate everything in my vegie garden. I

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Speaker 6: came out one.

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Speaker 1: Morning and everything was pulled out like a mass, like

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Speaker 1: a charismatic.

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Speaker 6: They hate pepperm and oil.

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Speaker 2: So we did some backup guys, but there's an awesome

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Speaker 2: veggie batch. It doesn't matter, do you know what, I'm

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Speaker 2: trying it, but should That stuff stinks, so doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: The rats don't care. They're coming for me.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 6: We dip the cotton bolls and pepman oil and threw

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Speaker 6: them randomly through the manhole and we haven't had rats

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Speaker 6: in the ceiling since.

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Speaker 1: I love that. My wife comes s, what the hell

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Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm getting in the rats? Told me what?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, this is actually very helpful. And trying the

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Speaker 2: peppermint oil today. I'll get back to you tomorrow. So

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Speaker 2: now listen to all this. Probably raising Ice is an expert.

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Speaker 7: So morning Jay, Good morning, Christian Morning team.

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Speaker 1: Here you go.

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Speaker 2: Oh well you're just a personally just speak to so

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Speaker 2: you're a pro, you're a pest controller.

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Speaker 7: That is correct, good man.

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Speaker 1: First of all, there is a rat season, is this right?

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Speaker 7: Yes, that's correct. So wintertime is the past season or

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Speaker 7: any of the cold times because it doesn't necessarily involve winter,

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Speaker 7: could be early autumn, right, yes. So there after the

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Speaker 7: same things you and I are after, which is a

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Speaker 7: bit of warmth over the cold months.

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Speaker 2: Right, okay, and then why would this thing then be

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Speaker 2: chewing the floorboards? Like, honestly, Jay, it was so noisy

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Speaker 2: it sounded massive.

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Speaker 7: Wow, are you sure not a possum?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, this thing was scurrying around because it started

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Speaker 2: stamping on the floorboards to let them know there was

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Speaker 2: a big man inside that floorboarded thing through your next option.

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Speaker 2: I've been watching Tom Hardy, so I think I was

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Speaker 2: actually like, it's gonna go mate.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, what a brave man. Yeah, Tom Hardy up there.

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you this much. You know, rasts get pretty

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Speaker 7: big in Melbourne City, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: I've seen them at the size of small dogs. But

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Speaker 7: the reason it's probably in the floorboards is because they're

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Speaker 7: probably making the way into the roof through the wall coveties.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, So how do you get rid of them

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Speaker 1: when you go around? What do you do? Are you

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Speaker 1: like spraying something you're fumigating?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 7: You actually bait for them. The other caller was correct

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Speaker 7: where they may or may not eat the bait, which

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Speaker 7: is why it's got to put down several different types

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Speaker 7: of bait find the right flavor. Essentially, it's like chili congk.

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Speaker 7: Not every human.

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Speaker 2: Likes peppermine oil and some chili.

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Speaker 1: One way, somebody's going to get you.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, peppermine oil. It's a very medieval sort of thing that.

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Speaker 1: When you get rid of them, they do they come back,

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Speaker 1: or they gone for a long time.

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Speaker 7: They're usually gone for a long time. If you kill

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Speaker 7: off the family, denish just waiting to the next lot

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Speaker 7: that actually come through, which is why you've got to

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Speaker 7: prove where they come.

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Speaker 1: Take it out the family. Hey, Ram, your family pass it.

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Speaker 1: On Christian O'Connell Show podcast