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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. It's time once again for Amanda's

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Speaker 1: evening Scroll. This is just a couple of things I

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Speaker 1: saw on my evening scroll. This is a story from Austria.

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Speaker 1: Three nuns in their eighties have run away from their

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Speaker 1: retirement home. They were placed in the retirement home. They

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Speaker 1: weren't happy, so they've run back. They ran away back

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Speaker 1: to their former convent. They're eighty eight, eighty six and

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Speaker 1: eighty two. Sister reader, she's the young feisty one. Yep,

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Speaker 1: so the last three nuns at their convent just outside Salzburg.

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Speaker 1: They regained access with the help of former students and

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Speaker 1: a locksmith because they'd been put They've been promised that

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Speaker 1: they could stay at that convent till they couldn't, till

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Speaker 1: they all passed away, but instead they were shipped out

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Speaker 1: and put into a nursing home. A convent in nursing

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Speaker 1: home is well, one is one that's been their home,

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Speaker 1: probably for their lives, and a nursing home has a

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Speaker 1: very different vibe to a convent. If you're a Catholic.

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Speaker 1: Nuns aren't living like p Diddy. They've got you know,

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Speaker 1: they have a meager existence and maybe they liked the

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Speaker 1: more meager existence in the convent, the retirement. Her home

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Speaker 1: is fancy. Ooh yu, I'm cruel again. Maybe we'll never

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Speaker 1: know that. But they said they've been given the right

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Speaker 1: to stay there until the end of our lives. That

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Speaker 1: was broken. So they've run away. They're happy and thankful

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Speaker 1: to be home. But then I saw this other story.

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Speaker 1: This is from nineteen eighty five. When you read it,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like something that happened in the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 1: This story is quite extraordinary. So two boys in nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty five, they're from Dublin. One of them was ten

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Speaker 1: years old and one of them was thirteen. They made

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Speaker 1: headlines around the world when they made their way to

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Speaker 1: New York. Really yeah. So Keith, who was one of them,

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Speaker 1: spoke recently on a documentary. He said he and his

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Speaker 1: friends decided his friend decided that maybe they'd go to

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Speaker 1: New York because they wanted to meet Ba Baracus from

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Speaker 1: the eighteen So here's what happened. Aspirational Their adventures started

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Speaker 1: when they went out to play before dinner, and Keith

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Speaker 1: said that his mum said, don't go far, your dinner's

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Speaker 1: near ready, and he said, I won't, so what they did.

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Speaker 1: They they took the train to Don Laguerre and they

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Speaker 1: snuck onto a ferry to Holyhead. Emboldened by that success,

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Speaker 1: they avoided ticket checkers and got onto a train to London.

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Speaker 1: Eventually they found their way to Heathrow Airport. All they

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Speaker 1: had was a few coins between them that they'd taken

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Speaker 1: from a charity fountain. Once they were at Heathrow, they

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Speaker 1: asked a random passenger where that plane was going, and

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Speaker 1: he said that it was New York. So they told

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Speaker 1: the person checking the tickets and the security that their

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Speaker 1: parents were behind them, and they got onto an Air

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Speaker 1: India plane. Oh, they said, the plane was only half full,

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Speaker 1: so no one came near us. So they flew to

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Speaker 1: New York on an Air India plane. But this was

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Speaker 1: extraordinary given that two months earlier, an Air India jet

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Speaker 1: had blown up off southwest of Ireland, killing three hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty nine people. That's how lax their security was.

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Speaker 1: Just a few months after that, it happens could to

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Speaker 1: say that Andy has got better as they've gone on.

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Speaker 1: So they say that they couldn't eat the hot curry

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Speaker 1: on the plane, but they did enjoy watching a view

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Speaker 1: to a kill, and so the journey version. The journey

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Speaker 1: came to an end when they left JFK Airport and

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Speaker 1: asked a policeman for the way quote into town. He

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Speaker 1: got suspicious. They were apprehended. This was hilarious. Authorities took

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Speaker 1: no chances. They were put in a hotel suite with

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Speaker 1: five security guards. But Keith said, there were belts. There

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Speaker 1: were chips everything. We fed like lords. We loved it.

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Speaker 1: There was BLTs, but no b a barracus, No pity

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Speaker 1: of the fool. What an adventure. That is great. And

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Speaker 1: that's the fruits of your loins, of my scrolling. Okay,

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Speaker 1: do we have an intro for fruits of your loins