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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: We are lucky on this show.

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Speaker 3: Every day we get great stories from you guys, right,

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Speaker 3: But sometimes there are stories that are so vivid they

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Speaker 3: burrow their way into your memory and they can't get

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Speaker 3: out again, like some kind of memory. Ear one that

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Speaker 3: story about three hundred red backs in the wall will

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Speaker 3: haunt me, not stay with me, haunt me forever. So

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Speaker 3: much so I'm starting to think about moving back to

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Speaker 3: the UK.

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Speaker 4: It is me.

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Speaker 3: I heard that it's sunny, reminded me this place is

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Speaker 3: so dangerous. It's the kind of story that will come

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Speaker 3: to us at night when all the lights are off. Tonight, Jack,

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Speaker 3: when you do that check of the house, the doors

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Speaker 3: of luck, now check all the walls for redbacks?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, living in the wall. Yeah, but they're

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Speaker 2: more scared of us than we are, not three hundred

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Speaker 2: of them bread numbers. Let's is he?

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Speaker 3: Is he?

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Speaker 2: Good morning?

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Speaker 1: How is he?

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Speaker 2: Why did you have to leave your house?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: This was when I was a kid in London, Christian

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Speaker 1: and my dad went down day because all those English

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Speaker 1: housers have really big basements and he found bullet casings. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and she's got a specialist in and it turns out

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Speaker 1: there might be an unexploded bomb in the basement.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So they got the specialist in. We had to

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Speaker 5: be evacuated, and they evacuated the two houses next to

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Speaker 5: us as well, and they got specialist in. But it

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Speaker 5: turned out it was fine and it was just like

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Speaker 5: the outside of the bomb.

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Speaker 2: So what was it? A World War two bomb?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they think.

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Speaker 2: Did they have to send that robot in who diffuses it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess they did.

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Speaker 1: They didn't let us be.

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Speaker 5: There when they did it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're diffusing a bomb, you can't be there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hurt Locker, isn't that guy? And so other people

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Speaker 3: like walking with him going so it's a real bomb,

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Speaker 3: is it? Shall we just blow us all up as

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Speaker 3: we have a look at this? Gays get a quick

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Speaker 3: selfie as you with that arm and that while you're

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Speaker 3: in that big old suit?

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Speaker 6: Is he?

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, your story mate, have a good day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael. Why did you have to leave your house?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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Speaker 6: Christian?

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Speaker 4: Hi, run. We were on a holiday about nearly ten

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Speaker 4: years ago now, but when our kids were little, and

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Speaker 4: we drove back and we got back quite late at night,

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Speaker 4: and we thought someone had got into the house. But

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Speaker 4: what we discovered was in fact that a possum had

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Speaker 4: been living in our house while we'd been on holidays

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Speaker 4: for a good few days. So the house was pretty

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Speaker 4: much destroyed. It had spent three days trying to get

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Speaker 4: out of the house. No nested made a nice little

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Speaker 4: home for itself and my son's cots.

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Speaker 6: We saw it.

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Speaker 4: She put the kids back in the car and went

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Speaker 4: to her mum straight away. I put a bike helmet

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Speaker 4: on and grabbed the fire poker and went looking for

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Speaker 4: this thing.

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Speaker 2: And what an image.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my brother in law came to the rescue and we.

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Speaker 6: Were looking for it.

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Speaker 2: We had a cycle helmet on as well. The pair

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Speaker 2: of you were there.

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Speaker 4: I'm not exactly what we did. We thought this thing

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Speaker 4: called attack us, but then finally arrived and all he did.

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Speaker 4: All he did was put it back in its tree.

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Speaker 4: And he could see the look on my face and

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Speaker 4: he assured me that that's what had to happen, otherwise

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Speaker 4: more parsons.

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Speaker 2: Did he have a bicycle helmet on as well?

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Speaker 3: Each of all three of you like cowering behind each other,

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Speaker 3: You are the front with that fire poker.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but we had to move out.

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Speaker 4: We were out of the house for at least a

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Speaker 4: week up to about ten days. We're in hotels and

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Speaker 4: things because they had to There was painting in there

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Speaker 4: to be done. Carpet replaced with.

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Speaker 2: The what's the phrase, run a mock?

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Speaker 3: I've always wanted to say, I've never said it before.

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Speaker 3: Run a mock in there and obviously looked like Goldilocks.

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Speaker 3: They tried all the beds, thought to have this cat

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Speaker 3: is sick. I'm living in this um.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Once you go back, you can't get back.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly what happened.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Michael, great story. Thank you very much. You give

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Speaker 2: us a call mate mate, Thank you, James. Why did

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Speaker 2: you have to leave your house?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Well, when we were about twelve years old, my father

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Speaker 6: and his brother went fishing for a week and dropped

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Speaker 6: off my cousin, Renee. She is about the same age,

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Speaker 6: and she bought with a Rodney the rat, a little

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Speaker 6: pet rats, little a thin I don't know who, might

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Speaker 6: have been about twelve fifteen centimeters long, and he used

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Speaker 6: to sit on her shoulder. One afternoon, Rodney were missing,

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Speaker 6: and we're looking for Rodney everywhere. I don't know how

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Speaker 6: all over the joint couldn't find Rodney.

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Speaker 2: I'd let him go pet rat.

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Speaker 6: Mum wasn't that upset about it, but Renee was pretty devastated.

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Speaker 6: She's looking for a rat, and we're looking for the rat.

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Speaker 6: Around about seven eight o'clock that night, we hear that

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Speaker 6: we hear this scratching and screaming around the back of

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Speaker 6: the bookshelf. Are you diddy? We found the rat? So

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Speaker 6: stick our head down there and couldn't find it. Calling

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Speaker 6: out to him, Renee gets the torch and shines it

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Speaker 6: down the back of the bookshelf that he can see

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Speaker 6: the little red eyes looking back. Because that's strange that

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Speaker 6: Rodney's not coming, She puts her hand down the back

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Speaker 6: of the bookshelf, right up to her shoulder's lenk, grabs

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Speaker 6: the rat by the head, only to realize that the

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Speaker 6: rat no longer has fir or is. She's actually grabbed

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Speaker 6: the head of a snake.

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Speaker 2: Stop, what do you mean?

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Speaker 6: There was a snake living behind the bookshelf that we

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Speaker 6: know got of it. It's just eating their pet rack.

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Speaker 3: What kind of snake was it?

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Speaker 6: Well, we didn't hang around to find out.

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Speaker 3: Are any cuddly friendly ones in this country.

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Speaker 2: You were the first attach that you deal with it.

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Speaker 6: Enjoy your new peak python the python.

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Speaker 2: So it was a python.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: It turned out some bloke come around the next morning

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Speaker 6: and pulled this thing out, isn't it It was? I look,

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Speaker 6: everything seems big when you're twelve, but six foot long python.

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Speaker 6: But it does explain weirdly about the only house in

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Speaker 6: the street. They didn't have pigeons or possums in them.

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Speaker 2: So he actually lived lived in your house, live in

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Speaker 2: like a cruel space.

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Speaker 6: Has been there. Well, we don't know how long I've

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Speaker 6: been there, but it made itself mastertal spot. There there

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Speaker 6: was through the floorboard of the Queensland was elevated Queensland

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Speaker 6: as they could kind of come and go as he please.

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Speaker 3: I was about to say it kind have been here

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Speaker 3: with tire because when we went up traveling to the

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Speaker 3: Danetree Forest, we stayed in this little rental.

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Speaker 2: Right now, as I was checking out, the guy goes, uh,

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Speaker 2: he made you to meet the pie. And I thought

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Speaker 2: he was joking, larking character, and.

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Speaker 3: He goes and he goes, no, did you see the python?

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Speaker 3: I went where he goes, it's in it's in your cottage.

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Speaker 3: I went, what do you mean? And we walked back in.

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Speaker 3: Now he just pulls this flimsy sort of doorway across

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Speaker 3: and like a cruel space.

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Speaker 2: To the bat and there's a flipping python in there,

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Speaker 2: just clear to guess. My wife was in.

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Speaker 3: The car as we're driving away, because I was just shrink,

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Speaker 3: you're right, and I went just keep driving, keep driving.

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Speaker 3: Chals my wife. She burst into tears. She pulls over

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Speaker 3: and goes, chick under the car, chriss over there. That

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Speaker 3: is some sorry, James, some sorry James. Yes, we love

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Speaker 3: your story so much, we're gonna make you our instant

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Speaker 3: caller of the week.

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Speaker 2: One thousand day.

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Speaker 3: Peter, the Python story gets you an install one thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars for our corner of the week. Well, thanks to

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Speaker 3: Mercedes Benz Berricks. We're two ways to get more for

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Speaker 3: your trading. Why would you go anywhere else? Mercedes Benz Berit, James,

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Speaker 3: great story, well told, enjoy your one thousand dollars mote.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna get by.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Python's win cash on this show.

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