Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connor show, Jack House.
Speaker 2: Something living in your roof.
Speaker 3: It's in there, it's up there. We hear every night
Speaker 3: as we watch TV.
Speaker 2: Is Sue the Boss. She's determined to get you up
Speaker 2: earlier and into the studio. Sue the bosses up there.
Speaker 2: We know it up there, so.
Speaker 3: Well, if it's too she's got scratchy feet, because it's
Speaker 3: something with scratchy feet going scritch, scratch, scratch each night
Speaker 3: as we're watching TV. I think it might be birds
Speaker 3: because in the daytime I see birds hanging around the
Speaker 3: window near where the scretching is.
Speaker 2: You see hanging around. I mean they're just they're just birds,
Speaker 2: not hanging around.
Speaker 3: They like something about.
Speaker 2: Youths hanging around. That's seven eleven.
Speaker 3: They're loitering. The birds are loitering above our windows, loitering
Speaker 3: with intent. Then, when I was a kid, obviously a
Speaker 3: common one is possums in the roof. We had possums
Speaker 3: at Mum and Dad's. And then it could be a
Speaker 3: third thing. I've seen a rat at our house in
Speaker 3: the backyard. Imagine it was a rat or a family
Speaker 3: of rats living in the roof.
Speaker 2: Rats. Do you think it's right? Don't I mean scratching
Speaker 2: the fear of it. Right, doesn't the word rats? Gare you?
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of? No one's going to thank
Speaker 2: me for the saying this, but I'm going to share
Speaker 2: it now. Do you know what a king rat is?
Speaker 3: It sounds just like a massive rat.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: The London underground is like, if you've ever been on londonderground,
Speaker 2: you'll see rats everywhere. Okay, because it's the underground. Someone wants.
Speaker 2: When I said, oh, these rats here, one of the
Speaker 2: underground stuff was telling me about what a thing called
Speaker 2: a king rat?
Speaker 3: What like a queen bee?
Speaker 2: God, No, it's worse than that. But when it's the
Speaker 2: real subterranean darkness for rats, right, their tails when they're
Speaker 2: living together, because there's like hundreds of them, their tails
Speaker 2: become entwined and they can't separate. So you can have
Speaker 2: ten to twelve rats tangled together. What happens is one rat,
Speaker 2: one rat, king rat will move them all as one.
Speaker 4: That's terrific.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When he told me about that, I actually went right,
Speaker 2: you've seen that in a cartoon. No, he told me
Speaker 2: about he's seen king rats.
Speaker 3: Wait, so the tail together they.
Speaker 2: Get entoying because the darkness they're all onto the bitch.
Speaker 2: Hundreds of them. Hundreds of them, right, okay, produce a
Speaker 2: real of rat tails tied together. No, you've seen the
Speaker 2: racking that I want to be. I demand to be
Speaker 2: not now on the racking, the racking. How often is that?
Speaker 3: I think that's living by roof.
Speaker 2: Rat King, Seriously, that thing comes down and drags you away.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to do. You're up there. We'd have to
Speaker 2: leave you up there to die. Whyn't a jack boast?
Speaker 2: Did you fire him?
Speaker 3: No, Ratking, they dragged him away because I saw the
Speaker 3: rat at the worst possible time. I've never seen a
Speaker 3: rat before, and.
Speaker 2: It's the worst possible time to see it. In the
Speaker 2: afternoon five boss fight, we were.
Speaker 3: We were having a dinner party, and.
Speaker 2: You flashed it. Oh, sorry to interrupt this dinner party
Speaker 2: for vring out the fare rat.
Speaker 3: I think my friends outside to show on the lawn
Speaker 3: because we got the lawny.
Speaker 2: Dinner party strings on the lawn.
Speaker 3: Now law.
Speaker 2: On sets more mint, Julip, Julie just sue the boss
Speaker 2: in the roof again.
Speaker 3: And then a rat took off across the back fence,
Speaker 3: you know, one side to the other, and all my
Speaker 3: friends said you've got rats here, so I've got either.
Speaker 2: It's a good dinner, per I say that bird possum
Speaker 2: or rat new game. It's a home of the name game.
Speaker 2: And it's also the show since we came back.
Speaker 3: By the way, possible rat, I love it.
Speaker 1: What do they win?
Speaker 2: If they guess right? You're gonna go up there today
Speaker 2: find out if it's a golden bird, Golden possible.
Speaker 3: Gold I want to know how to get rid of them?
Speaker 2: All right, okay, golden now bird, possible rat? What do
Speaker 2: you want advice on each one?
Speaker 3: Firstly, what's the worst one to have?
Speaker 2: And I told you rat King?
Speaker 3: And then if it's either of those or any of those,
Speaker 3: how do I get.
Speaker 2: Rid of them? Bacon sandwich? Who can resist the lurever
Speaker 2: bacon sandwich? They come out for that? Give us a call.
Speaker 1: Christ Connell Shoe podcast.
Speaker 2: Patsy, you must have experiences about this.
Speaker 4: We had rats once, Jack and we could smell it.
Speaker 4: All used to crawl around our here. No we could
Speaker 4: smell it. It had obviously died in the roof, and
Speaker 4: it just progressively got worse over a couple of days.
Speaker 4: And I said, to the love God, you need to
Speaker 4: get up there in that roof and check it out anyway,
Speaker 4: So he opened the manhole and it had very conveniently
Speaker 4: died right near the manhole, so he didn't have to
Speaker 4: crawl through the roof. So we went to Bunning's got
Speaker 4: those big black industrial long gloves because we're thinking how
Speaker 4: we're going to pick it up. This thing was massive.
Speaker 4: It was like the size of a small dog, like
Speaker 4: a fox terrier.
Speaker 2: I'm not it was huge that you got the mega
Speaker 2: dog and now you've got a mega rasage. So anyway
Speaker 2: to get a wheelbarrow, I.
Speaker 4: Had to hold the big garbage bag. I couldn't look,
Speaker 4: so I'm down below the ladder not looking. He had
Speaker 4: the gloves, he got the long you know those barbecue tongs,
Speaker 4: the long ones. Picked it up with that and we
Speaker 4: the barbie ate it when you put it in the bag. Honestly,
Speaker 4: it was like a load of bricks going in the bag.
Speaker 4: This thing was huge. I think it had babies or something.
Speaker 2: It was massive.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go into the lines. Linda, birds, possum
Speaker 2: or rats.
Speaker 5: Rats for the worst. They're definitely the worst. But Jack,
Speaker 5: I've got this fantastic tip for you from my old
Speaker 5: Scottish neighbor. What you do is, if you've got a cat,
Speaker 5: or you've got a friend that's got a cat, you
Speaker 5: get their really dirty, smelly, stinky liter and put it
Speaker 5: in a bag and put it in your roof. And
Speaker 5: then the rats or whatever they think, Yeah, they think
Speaker 5: there's a cat up there, and so they go, they
Speaker 5: go away.
Speaker 2: They have a load of Larry stuff, fresh fresh Larry
Speaker 2: PiZZ tomorrow morning, sprinkle out. There there's a line up
Speaker 2: the sides of that fat cat I've got.
Speaker 3: So all I'm doing, though, is trading the scratching of
Speaker 3: the animal for the smell of cat pete.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but once they've gone and then just get rid
Speaker 5: of the cat pe because they're not going to come back.
Speaker 5: They'll go and live somewhere else.
Speaker 2: It's a good idea.
Speaker 3: It's not a great idea, but if I get desperate,
Speaker 3: I will try it.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me know Larry's letter, dirty yellow letter tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Bringing bag of Larry's stuff in just in case.
Speaker 2: I'm keeping the put it works for me, Linda, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. Advice. Good morning, bye, Jamie, good morning,
Speaker 2: good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good, Jamie. Always under torture, Jamie, what advice
Speaker 2: have you got for Jack? Also, have birds maybe out
Speaker 2: of my roof every morning mating, mating like it used
Speaker 2: to just half of two and they went to four
Speaker 2: and they went to six every morning. It's a quick
Speaker 2: old breeding program they're running up there. Well, they're doubling
Speaker 2: each day. Birds don't just multiply.
Speaker 3: That was just it was like a good order on
Speaker 3: the roof every week.
Speaker 2: And what do you do to get rid of them?
Speaker 2: First of all of them with the hose and then
Speaker 2: call them down? That yeah, that young arder, that young
Speaker 2: love called it down. You should have called to David
Speaker 2: Attenbroy could have filmed a series up there.
Speaker 1: I started that start putting fake crows roof that works.
Speaker 2: I didn't know. I know you can buy fake house
Speaker 2: Patsy gave me one, but I didn't get a fake
Speaker 2: crime did worked?
Speaker 3: And these were in the roof on the roof.
Speaker 1: On the roof.
Speaker 2: Are you in the roof now moving glass or sheet metal?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 2: What's you up to, Jamie?
Speaker 1: I just did my work then, okay.
Speaker 2: Jamie, have a good day.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: One final thing, just to help Jack out with some
Speaker 2: rat facts, I googled interesting rat fats. By the way,
Speaker 2: I also found an article Top fifteen cartoon, Mice and
Speaker 2: Rats ranked Jerry from Tom and Jerry at number four.
Speaker 1: Nowhere for Tom.
Speaker 2: I understand, you know, I couldn't stand that cartoon. I say, kid,
Speaker 2: did you like Tom?
Speaker 3: But only one of them was a rat?
Speaker 2: No, but of course one's a cat. Take that out
Speaker 2: of the podcast. Oh sorry, it was the top fifteen
Speaker 2: cats and mice and rats. Seriously taking out the podcast anyway?
Speaker 2: Did you know that rats can laugh? Oh? Okay, why
Speaker 2: would rat facts I'd printed off for this infographic? Rats
Speaker 2: can laugh?
Speaker 4: What's it sound like?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. I don't know. Pats have not
Speaker 2: studied this, but we need to find out. Can we
Speaker 2: jump on YouTube here if they've actually got microphones? Apparently?
Speaker 2: Rats off? What's more terrifying than seeing a rat the
Speaker 2: night than hearing it in the night and laughing at you?
Speaker 1: Christian Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: We're talking about rats or birds or possums that may
Speaker 2: or may not be living in Jack's roof, and we
Speaker 2: found out that rats laugh, and this is evidence of that.
Speaker 2: What listened to is a rat being tickled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm being tickled. Somebody's gone through four years,
Speaker 3: maybe more are sign University and then got to put
Speaker 3: on the rubber gloves toick's.
Speaker 2: Got one of those big long produs or something. You
Speaker 2: don't want to get too close to a rat like
Speaker 2: a meter stick to give a little nudge right on
Speaker 2: their ribs. Everyone's ticklish. They're even the king rats. Let's
Speaker 2: stop it now, scientists.
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