WEBVTT - MINI - Evacuation

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

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<v Speaker 2>We are lucky on this show.

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<v Speaker 3>Every day we get great stories from you guys, right,

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<v Speaker 3>But sometimes there are stories that are so vivid they

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<v Speaker 3>burrow their way into your memory and they can't get

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<v Speaker 3>out again, like some kind of memory. Ear one that

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<v Speaker 3>story about three hundred red backs in the wall will

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<v Speaker 3>haunt me, not stay with me, haunt me forever. So

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<v Speaker 3>much so I'm starting to think about moving back to

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<v Speaker 3>the UK.

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<v Speaker 4>It is me.

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<v Speaker 3>I heard that it's sunny, reminded me this place is

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<v Speaker 3>so dangerous. It's the kind of story that will come

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

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<v Speaker 3>when you do that check of the house, the doors

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<v Speaker 3>of luck, now check all the walls for redbacks?

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

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<v Speaker 2>more scared of us than we are, not three hundred

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<v Speaker 2>of them bread numbers. Let's is he?

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<v Speaker 3>Is he?

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning?

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<v Speaker 1>How is he?

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<v Speaker 2>Why did you have to leave your house?

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<v Speaker 4>Well?

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<v Speaker 1>This was when I was a kid in London, Christian

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<v Speaker 1>and my dad went down day because all those English

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<v Speaker 1>housers have really big basements and he found bullet casings. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's got a specialist in and it turns out

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<v Speaker 1>there might be an unexploded bomb in the basement.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, So they got the specialist in. We had to

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<v Speaker 5>be evacuated, and they evacuated the two houses next to

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<v Speaker 5>us as well, and they got specialist in. But it

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<v Speaker 5>turned out it was fine and it was just like

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<v Speaker 5>the outside of the bomb.

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<v Speaker 2>So what was it? A World War two bomb?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what they think.

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<v Speaker 2>Did they have to send that robot in who diffuses it?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I guess they did.

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<v Speaker 1>They didn't let us be.

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<v Speaker 5>There when they did it.

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

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

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<v Speaker 3>like walking with him going so it's a real bomb,

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<v Speaker 3>is it? Shall we just blow us all up as

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<v Speaker 3>we have a look at this? Gays get a quick

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<v Speaker 3>selfie as you with that arm and that while you're

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<v Speaker 3>in that big old suit?

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<v Speaker 6>Is he?

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you very much, your story mate, have a good day.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Michael. Why did you have to leave your house?

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<v Speaker 1>Hi?

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<v Speaker 6>Christian?

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<v Speaker 4>Hi, run. We were on a holiday about nearly ten

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<v Speaker 4>years ago now, but when our kids were little, and

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<v Speaker 4>we drove back and we got back quite late at night,

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<v Speaker 4>and we thought someone had got into the house. But

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<v Speaker 4>what we discovered was in fact that a possum had

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<v Speaker 4>been living in our house while we'd been on holidays

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<v Speaker 4>for a good few days. So the house was pretty

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<v Speaker 4>much destroyed. It had spent three days trying to get

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<v Speaker 4>out of the house. No nested made a nice little

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<v Speaker 4>home for itself and my son's cots.

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<v Speaker 6>We saw it.

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<v Speaker 4>She put the kids back in the car and went

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<v Speaker 4>to her mum straight away. I put a bike helmet

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<v Speaker 4>on and grabbed the fire poker and went looking for

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<v Speaker 4>this thing.

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<v Speaker 2>And what an image.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, my brother in law came to the rescue and we.

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<v Speaker 6>Were looking for it.

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<v Speaker 2>We had a cycle helmet on as well. The pair

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<v Speaker 2>of you were there.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not exactly what we did. We thought this thing

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<v Speaker 4>called attack us, but then finally arrived and all he did.

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<v Speaker 4>All he did was put it back in its tree.

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<v Speaker 4>And he could see the look on my face and

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<v Speaker 4>he assured me that that's what had to happen, otherwise

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<v Speaker 4>more parsons.

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<v Speaker 2>Did he have a bicycle helmet on as well?

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<v Speaker 3>Each of all three of you like cowering behind each other,

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<v Speaker 3>You are the front with that fire poker.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, but we had to move out.

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<v Speaker 4>We were out of the house for at least a

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<v Speaker 4>week up to about ten days. We're in hotels and

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<v Speaker 4>things because they had to There was painting in there

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<v Speaker 4>to be done. Carpet replaced with.

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<v Speaker 2>The what's the phrase, run a mock?

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<v Speaker 3>I've always wanted to say, I've never said it before.

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<v Speaker 3>Run a mock in there and obviously looked like Goldilocks.

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<v Speaker 3>They tried all the beds, thought to have this cat

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<v Speaker 3>is sick. I'm living in this um.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Once you go back, you can't get back.

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<v Speaker 4>That's exactly what happened.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Michael, great story. Thank you very much. You give

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<v Speaker 2>us a call mate mate, Thank you, James. Why did

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<v Speaker 2>you have to leave your house?

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<v Speaker 5>Oh?

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<v Speaker 6>Well, when we were about twelve years old, my father

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<v Speaker 6>and his brother went fishing for a week and dropped

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<v Speaker 6>off my cousin, Renee. She is about the same age,

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<v Speaker 6>and she bought with a Rodney the rat, a little

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<v Speaker 6>pet rats, little a thin I don't know who, might

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<v Speaker 6>have been about twelve fifteen centimeters long, and he used

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<v Speaker 6>to sit on her shoulder. One afternoon, Rodney were missing,

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

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<v Speaker 6>all over the joint couldn't find Rodney.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd let him go pet rat.

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

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<v Speaker 6>She's looking for a rat, and we're looking for the rat.

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<v Speaker 6>Around about seven eight o'clock that night, we hear that

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<v Speaker 6>we hear this scratching and screaming around the back of

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<v Speaker 6>the bookshelf. Are you diddy? We found the rat? So

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<v Speaker 6>stick our head down there and couldn't find it. Calling

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<v Speaker 6>out to him, Renee gets the torch and shines it

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<v Speaker 6>down the back of the bookshelf that he can see

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<v Speaker 6>the little red eyes looking back. Because that's strange that

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<v Speaker 6>Rodney's not coming, She puts her hand down the back

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<v Speaker 6>of the bookshelf, right up to her shoulder's lenk, grabs

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<v Speaker 6>the rat by the head, only to realize that the

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<v Speaker 6>rat no longer has fir or is. She's actually grabbed

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<v Speaker 6>the head of a snake.

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<v Speaker 2>Stop, what do you mean?

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<v Speaker 6>There was a snake living behind the bookshelf that we

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<v Speaker 6>know got of it. It's just eating their pet rack.

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<v Speaker 3>What kind of snake was it?

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<v Speaker 6>Well, we didn't hang around to find out.

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<v Speaker 3>Are any cuddly friendly ones in this country.

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<v Speaker 2>You were the first attach that you deal with it.

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<v Speaker 6>Enjoy your new peak python the python.

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<v Speaker 2>So it was a python.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>It turned out some bloke come around the next morning

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

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

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<v Speaker 6>But it does explain weirdly about the only house in

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<v Speaker 6>the street. They didn't have pigeons or possums in them.

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<v Speaker 2>So he actually lived lived in your house, live in

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<v Speaker 2>like a cruel space.

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

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<v Speaker 6>been there, but it made itself mastertal spot. There there

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<v Speaker 6>was through the floorboard of the Queensland was elevated Queensland

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<v Speaker 6>as they could kind of come and go as he please.

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<v Speaker 3>I was about to say it kind have been here

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<v Speaker 3>with tire because when we went up traveling to the

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<v Speaker 3>Danetree Forest, we stayed in this little rental.

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<v Speaker 2>Right now, as I was checking out, the guy goes, uh,

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<v Speaker 2>he made you to meet the pie. And I thought

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<v Speaker 2>he was joking, larking character, and.

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<v Speaker 3>He goes and he goes, no, did you see the python?

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<v Speaker 3>I went where he goes, it's in it's in your cottage.

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

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<v Speaker 3>Now he just pulls this flimsy sort of doorway across

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<v Speaker 3>and like a cruel space.

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<v Speaker 2>To the bat and there's a flipping python in there,

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<v Speaker 2>just clear to guess. My wife was in.

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

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<v Speaker 3>you're right, and I went just keep driving, keep driving.

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<v Speaker 3>Chals my wife. She burst into tears. She pulls over

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<v Speaker 3>and goes, chick under the car, chriss over there. That

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<v Speaker 3>is some sorry, James, some sorry James. Yes, we love

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<v Speaker 2>One thousand day.

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<v Speaker 3>Peter, the Python story gets you an install one thousand

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<v Speaker 3>great story, well told, enjoy your one thousand dollars mote.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm gonna get by.

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