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<v Speaker 1>First, yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Found out that the rapper Snoop Dogg has a professional

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<v Speaker 2>joint roller who has to roll him one hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>fifty a day. That is to say, Snoops up for

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, twelve hours, fourteen hours. That's a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a lot, Okay, one hundred and fifty day. So

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<v Speaker 2>the headline was about one hundred and fifty joints a

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<v Speaker 2>day for Snoop Dogg. That wasn't a really big takeaway

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<v Speaker 2>from me. He has a professional joint roller. He what

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<v Speaker 2>did he like run interviews? What's the recruitment policy that

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<v Speaker 2>person's got like sick an entitlement and a package and

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<v Speaker 2>what like a bonus STRUCTURER and stuff like that. I

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<v Speaker 2>can't believe he actually employs someone whose job it is

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<v Speaker 2>just to roll his joints.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you get a repetitive stress in jest well from

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<v Speaker 3>doing the thing movement one hundred and fifty times a day.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So if this was like the sixties or seventies,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was for Keith Richards and you heard about

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<v Speaker 2>the story, that you understand that. But in twenty twenty two,

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<v Speaker 2>I thought, what a stray job for somebody. So this morning,

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<v Speaker 2>what is the strangest almost unusual job you've had? This

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<v Speaker 2>is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So Snoop Doggie Dog

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<v Speaker 2>has someone he employs a full time joint roller. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>tell you what is a busy guy this joint ron?

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<v Speaker 2>You think, well, that's an easy gig. No, you got

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<v Speaker 2>to make a undred and fifty a day for Snoop Dogg?

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<v Speaker 3>Would they kill a man?

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<v Speaker 2>What's smoking that amount? Or making them? I know you're

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<v Speaker 2>you're you're allergic to hard work. Which are you more

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<v Speaker 2>worried about?

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<v Speaker 3>Meaning the smoking? Day after day? Every would take its toll.

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<v Speaker 2>Did I ever tell h much still about meeting Snoop Dogg?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, this is a horrendous story. Right years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>I was went to see a median friend of mine

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<v Speaker 2>do a gig and I went to see him backstage

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<v Speaker 2>and he was like very very famous again and he'd

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<v Speaker 2>been doing a lot of work out in America and

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<v Speaker 2>backstage or just in the green room, happened to be

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<v Speaker 2>loads of different people on tvings that and as part

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<v Speaker 2>of an entourage, and there was a there was billowing

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<v Speaker 2>smoke every when I don't mean like when people would

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<v Speaker 2>smoke indoors. I mean Snoop Dogg Worth, Yes, all the dope.

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<v Speaker 2>The center of it was Snoop Dogg. And I got

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<v Speaker 2>introduced to him and he had like this. He had

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<v Speaker 2>like it the law tracksuit and chain he was. He

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<v Speaker 2>looked magnificent and anyway he had this. Honestly, it was

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<v Speaker 2>like a It looked like a sub sandwich of a joint.

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<v Speaker 2>I must have looked like a knock. I didn't they

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<v Speaker 2>come to that big so and he's obviously a polite man.

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<v Speaker 2>He's introduced to me and he goes, he sort of

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<v Speaker 2>passed it to me, and I didn't know what to say.

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<v Speaker 2>I went, I went like this, I had some early enough, No,

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<v Speaker 2>I had one earlier. I hadn't I had some of

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<v Speaker 2>that earlier. You know, you get a bit for up. Actually, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I've had too much. Actually, to be honest, I had

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<v Speaker 2>ten of those on the way here. So I've just

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<v Speaker 2>got to give it another hour two yours actually quite.

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<v Speaker 4>All right.

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<v Speaker 2>So what is the weirdest, most unusual job you ever had?

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<v Speaker 2>Nine four one four one oh four three Chris, good morning,

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning, So Chris, what is the most unusual job

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<v Speaker 2>you've ever had.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, I'm currently a snake etcher. I think that's pretty unusual.

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<v Speaker 5>And previously I've been a professional adventurer.

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<v Speaker 2>So what is what do you mean? Like Indiana Jones?

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<v Speaker 2>What's a professional adventurer?

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<v Speaker 5>So similar to how an athlete works in terms of

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<v Speaker 5>the job, but rather than playing a sport, you just

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<v Speaker 5>do very weird things.

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<v Speaker 3>But who's pay to do that?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean where's the coin coming from? Who's the

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<v Speaker 2>man at the top of the pyramids.

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<v Speaker 5>You just come up with a bad idea. People jump

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<v Speaker 5>on board and you get sponsorships, You become ambassadors for

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<v Speaker 5>companies and things like that, and that's how you get

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<v Speaker 5>paid for the job. So the last expedition was kayaking

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<v Speaker 5>the wrong way up the Murray River. Fits on a

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<v Speaker 5>half thousand gates.

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<v Speaker 2>This is these feel like ideas. You come up with

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<v Speaker 2>the pub we're going to rodeo around Australia and so who.

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<v Speaker 3>Paid for that one? Chris, give us an example of

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<v Speaker 3>the company.

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<v Speaker 2>Why she'd got the wrong way?

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<v Speaker 5>Just do the that's aggressive Geelong Kat's actually jumped on board.

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<v Speaker 5>We had Paddy Palin based in Melbourne, big adventure company

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<v Speaker 5>we had. We're in a System's Kaiaks who sent basically

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<v Speaker 5>a clack and a paddle every year for a while

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<v Speaker 5>while was ambassador. So companies like that basically genuinely fascinating.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like we should do a competition to come

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<v Speaker 2>up with your next adventure.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm up for that.

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<v Speaker 3>What's the most impressive thing you've ever done, Chris, we'll

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<v Speaker 3>go up the Merry River the wrong way starts from.

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<v Speaker 5>It'd probably be that one going in the wrong way

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<v Speaker 5>up that was That was pretty difficult.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's not like the rapids. It's not like Niagara

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<v Speaker 2>for pretty steady body of water, isn't it the Murray?

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<v Speaker 5>It gets pretty fast in the top rangers.

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<v Speaker 3>Have to take you word for it, all right, Chris,

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 2>Keep the calls coming. Then, the weirdest job you ever had?

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to the question O Carl's Show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Jack was the strangest job you ever had?

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<v Speaker 3>When Hamish and Andy were still on Row, they wanted

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<v Speaker 3>to film this bit where they were taxi drivers overnight,

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<v Speaker 3>so they would pick up people and then film them

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<v Speaker 3>and interview them where they're in the taxis. But they

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<v Speaker 3>wouldn't let them have the taxi license unless they actually

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<v Speaker 3>sat the test and did the full setup that you

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<v Speaker 3>have to that every taxi driver has to go through.

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<v Speaker 3>The only exception they gave them is they were allowed

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<v Speaker 3>to do the tests at the radio station instead of

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<v Speaker 3>doing it at the taxi school. So my first paid

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<v Speaker 3>job on Hamershan Andy was to learn study the taxi

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<v Speaker 3>tests and sit the taxi test for them.

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<v Speaker 2>You know why for them?

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<v Speaker 3>Sat the test for him. So I sat in a

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<v Speaker 3>room at the radio station and tried to use different

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<v Speaker 3>handwriting for Hamish's tests.

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<v Speaker 4>I did.

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<v Speaker 3>And answer questions like, if you were going from Corefield

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<v Speaker 3>to the airport, what route would you do?

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's go to Mick. Good morning, Mick. What's

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<v Speaker 2>the intest job you ever had?

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<v Speaker 6>Mick?

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<v Speaker 1>Hi, guys, I hope you ready for this. I worked

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<v Speaker 1>artificially in seminating turkeys.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, someone's going to do it. You know, we won

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<v Speaker 2>the turkeys, then they're going to be made somehow. Someone

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<v Speaker 2>has to do that. And how tricky is that?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, apparently because I don't want enough for commercial purposes.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a tour of person operation. One of them comes up, Oh, darling,

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<v Speaker 1>my name's Mick, grabbed a turkey, shoved its head between

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<v Speaker 1>its legs, turns it upside down for the other person

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<v Speaker 1>to get a syringe. And in seminade's.

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<v Speaker 2>Quite a two man job of that, isn't it? How

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<v Speaker 2>you make an eye contact when you're doing that.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, a little bit of small talk and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>small talk.

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<v Speaker 2>How the tiger is going to go next season?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you've got to move. You've got to move quick, Mike,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't get an ugly one.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, Mick, thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 6>She cool?

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<v Speaker 1>How are cis?

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<v Speaker 6>Uh?

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<v Speaker 2>Frank? Good morning?

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<v Speaker 6>Oh good morning?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh good whating Frank? So what's the strangest job you

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<v Speaker 2>ever had? Frank?

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<v Speaker 6>I had to extract gophers from graves in Queen's Park

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<v Speaker 6>Cemetery in Calgary, Canada because they used to bring up

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<v Speaker 6>the the treasures of the loved the loved ones. So

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<v Speaker 6>it was it was it was basically like Caddy Shack

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<v Speaker 6>with Bill Murray's character.

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<v Speaker 2>If you can almost feel like this should have been

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<v Speaker 2>the second Caddy Shak movie where Bill Murray is now

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<v Speaker 2>in a in a graveyard and the cemetery getting rid

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<v Speaker 2>of those damn gophers.

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<v Speaker 3>So the gophers were like little grave diggers.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, they kept bringing up little piles of things like well,

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<v Speaker 6>we'll just say metal objects and things and.

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<v Speaker 2>What you mean. I mean, there's no dead people listening

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<v Speaker 2>right now. They're not going to call in from the

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<v Speaker 2>grave moaning, So.

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<v Speaker 4>What do you mean like the wedding ring, earrings, things

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<v Speaker 4>like that, and yeah, and we did it in a

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<v Speaker 4>very human manner, but it was some Yeah, I had

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<v Speaker 4>a bit of a reputation in that cemetery sort of

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<v Speaker 4>because it was the year that that movie came.

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<v Speaker 2>So you are so Canadian, and of course being Canadian,

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<v Speaker 2>you've done it an incredibly humane way. You probably would

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<v Speaker 2>have sat with all for thirty years until these died

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<v Speaker 2>of natural causes in a room.

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<v Speaker 3>Think of the families, Think of the loved ones of

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<v Speaker 3>the decease.

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<v Speaker 2>So are they are they somehow I'm actually get into

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<v Speaker 2>the coffins or these are they work?

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<v Speaker 6>I don't know how they do it, but they've got

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<v Speaker 6>very sharp teeth. I don't know if you're seen a golfer,

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<v Speaker 6>but I.

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<v Speaker 2>Haven't had that pleasure yet my life. But still time,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, still trying to take that off my bucket

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<v Speaker 2>like a.

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<v Speaker 6>Little beaver of minus the flat tail.

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<v Speaker 2>So they will just burrow their weight into the coffin,

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<v Speaker 2>have a little look around the corpse, and then take

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<v Speaker 2>what they want.

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<v Speaker 6>That's what it seemed to be.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that's why the Queen's coffin was iron clad.

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<v Speaker 2>Stop the gophers.

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<v Speaker 6>I think that would be hedgehogs in English.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, all right, Frank, thank you very much and cool.

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