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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. Oh. This wet weather, this unrelenting

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Speaker 1: wet weather, has led to, as we said last week,

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of leeches. Check your pets for leaches,

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Speaker 1: Check your kids for leaches.

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Speaker 2: Like yourself, check yourself because you don't know.

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Speaker 1: But also moss is taking over Sydney. Residents have been

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Speaker 1: worn to tread very carefully. Moss and algae and falling

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Speaker 1: autumn leaves and persistent wet weather have created very slippery

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Speaker 1: footpaths and people have been told to be very careful.

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Speaker 1: The City of Sydney said the issue of slippery paths

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Speaker 1: around the CBD in particular had become so serious that

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Speaker 1: people have been urged to change their personal routines so

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Speaker 1: they don't go Skinny mcgiddy.

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Speaker 2: I almost had a fall on the weekend, did you Yeah?

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Speaker 2: At my house? Just you know that rocky outcrop that

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Speaker 2: I've got I was walking on that night.

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Speaker 1: Whoo well, I nearly fell into the water.

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Speaker 2: Almost had a fall.

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Speaker 1: It had a fall. Have you had a few drinks?

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Speaker 2: No, no, your honor.

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Speaker 1: But the Botannic Gardens chief scientists has said he's never

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Speaker 1: seen growth like it, the explosion of moss. It's almost

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Speaker 1: like a rainforest. He said, there's only one kind of moss, honestly,

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Speaker 1: on the streets of Sydney.

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Speaker 2: This guy. There's more going on here, isn't So what

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Speaker 2: is it? Tell me?

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Speaker 1: Ron Moss Rich from Bolding and Beautiful. That's how you

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Speaker 1: might know him. I know him as the bass player

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Speaker 1: of the band player. There's Ron with a double end,

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Speaker 1: on and on. If we're going to be inundated with mass,

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Speaker 1: bring it on.

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Speaker 2: That's a moss.

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Speaker 1: Oh I slipped again.