1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 2: It's reading about this story of a woman in America 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 2: who has two pet tortoises. Tortoise, I tortai. They're those 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: ones that are they They're called African spur tortoises. I 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 2: just they're kind of like the size of a small suitcase, 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: I guess. And they've got those big ridges on their backs. 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 2: You know, they a must look like dinosaurs, you know 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: the kind I'm talking about. And here's a picture. 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: Thank you, got a handout those ones. 10 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: So this pet she has, this woman has two African 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 2: spur tortoises. One's Phineas, one is Feb, and they live 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: in her backyard. She loves them very much. Well, normally 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: she check on them every couple of hours, because why 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 2: wouldn't you check on a tortoise every couple of hours. 15 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: But she was stuck on the phone one day, didn't 16 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: get to check them. Next time she went into the backyard, 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: Feb was missing. Feb was missing for over two months. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: They looked for nine weeks to be exact, nine weeks 19 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 2: and four days. They looked everywhere. They searched high, they 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: searched low. They found fab thirty meters from the house 21 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: because it's a tortoise. That's as far as it got. 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: So pretty much they'd searched everywhere. They looked under the fence, 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: over the fence. It had got out under the fence 24 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 2: and was just pretty much on the other side of 25 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: the fence. Yeah, when an animal like a tortoise runs away, 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 2: it's not going to run far, is it. 27 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 3: We had a tortoise and it run away. 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: How long it take you to get it back? 29 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: We never got it back. 30 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: Oh, that is that's negligence because you could still go 31 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 2: to that yard and you'd still find it. 32 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 4: Now, how you got back to the old house and 33 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 4: there it is just outside the gate. 34 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 2: What were the circumstances they just got away from? Where? 35 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 2: Like was it locked in? 36 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: Yeah? 37 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 3: It was. 38 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 4: Well, my dad drewed a hole in the shell and 39 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 4: we tied a rape a little string to it so 40 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 4: I wouldn't go far and chewed through. 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 3: It didn't choo through, But the string was on the clothesline. 42 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: But the turtle tortoise was gone. 43 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: One did it have a long string? Tell me you 44 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: didn't just have like three inches and it could only 45 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 2: hang around at bottom of the. 46 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 3: Clothes that had enough string for it to know, So 47 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 3: is it? 48 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,679 Speaker 2: Probably is, it's still attached to the clothesline. Have you 49 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 2: actually looked at the end of the string? How old? 50 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: How many years ago was this eight abouts? Did the 51 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: tortoise have a name? Was it a turtle or a tortoise? 52 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: What's the diff I think it was a tortoise. Tortoise 53 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: live out of the water, don't they. 54 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: Was it a turtle? I can't remember. 55 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: Would it have a name? No, your love of pets 56 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: is beautiful. I really appreciate it. Turtle and you one 57 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 2: day it wasn't there, and you went, oh, it's gone, 58 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: not realizing that you'd still find it if you look now. 59 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 4: Yeah, but I should check it out because they lived 60 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 4: for a long time. Have you seen that X ray 61 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 4: of where the tortoise goes inside? 62 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 2: A lot of it's just air, isn't it inside the body? 63 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 2: Their whole body doesn't take up that bit. 64 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like a total waste of space. 65 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:57,839 Speaker 2: It's like you've got the inside of a sausage roll 66 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 2: and really big pastry around it. 67 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, just all their good. 68 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: You've got to pack your pajamas in it. 69 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: Why would you be? 70 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 2: Two of you done the slowest runaway of all time? 71 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 4: I always imagine in the tortoise shell, there's like a 72 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 4: chacuzzi in there, and it's a bottle. 73 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: It's like the Genie's bottle. 74 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 2: But no, it's relatively flat inside, that, isn't it. 75 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, So what's the point of it then? 76 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: Or that's my job to say, what's the point? Do 77 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 2: you should rent out the space? 78 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 4: Well, when you see the gray Head, no, Ma, it's 79 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 4: traveling around the country and they've got those get out 80 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 4: of town caravan. 81 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 2: That's like, that's like the tortoise. 82 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 4: They've got the sunken lounge and the chakoozi and all 83 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 4: that sort of stuff. 84 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 3: If you get invited out for drinks and nibbles. 85 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: In the afternoon, is that your dream? 86 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 4: That is my worst nightmare, you know, and begs on 87 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 4: about caravaning. I couldn't think of anything worse. 88 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: And totem tennis is like attaching your tortoise. 89 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 4: To no time for caravan packs. I can't go into 90 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 4: a caravan pick. You know, it's too too much. Brendan, 91 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 4: Your it's not too much. It's just you're too much 92 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 4: on top of each other. You know, you pretty much 93 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 4: go to a caravan pack and you're on top of it. 94 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 3: Right. 95 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 2: But you see those people that get there and put 96 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 2: out their colored stones to put their territory. Do you 97 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: coffee machines and their avocado to pippers? And they take 98 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 2: every elish girls bring everything from home and they sit down. 99 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: Yet except now. 100 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 3: Where set life a set country? Yep? 101 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 4: By late father in law Ron, he did the whole 102 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 4: gray headed nomad thing, and he knew it wasn't for 103 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 4: him because at six o'clock when they have the drinks 104 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 4: and nibbles, he just go into his caravan and shut 105 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 4: the door and watch the news. 106 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, maybe it's not. 107 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 2: Maybe it's not. 108 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 3: You've got to be the sort of person that's. 109 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: Right and want to get tenure. 110 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a prerequisite. Would you like 111 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 3: to be a caravan? 112 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: Can you imagine? 113 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 3: I want to say imagine? 114 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 4: Would like you know what we should do is you 115 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 4: back the caravan, because what is really good is you 116 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 4: get the woman to back the caravan into. 117 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 2: The bay because they're good at it. 118 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 4: The women are good and they because the women can't 119 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 4: give the directions, so the man gives us. 120 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 2: I wouldn't live it because he Matt wouldn't hear the directions. 121 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 4: I'm not sure about that, but it works out. I've 122 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 4: learned this from a lot of caravaners. And the woman 123 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 4: does the backing and the man does the directing. 124 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: And who empties the poops? Who? Seriously, well, that. 125 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 3: Would be your job. I react, you dealt it.