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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. We on your insta yesterday. Iceberg

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Speaker 1: letters nine ninety nine. In some parts of the country,

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Speaker 1: lettuce has rocketed to twelve dollars for single Iceberg letters.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was the only person in the world

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Speaker 1: who ate Iceberg lettuce. This is the new banana. This

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Speaker 1: is the new toilet paper. Don't use lettuce as toilet paper.

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Speaker 1: But we all panicked about how expensive it got, and

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Speaker 1: everyone was panicking, lettuce is the new one.

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Speaker 2: What toilet paper didn't go up that expensive? Did it

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Speaker 2: go up? It was hard to get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember, well, the reason the price of lettuce

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Speaker 1: as skyrocketed is because of the devastating floods in Queensland.

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Speaker 1: This is the main driver of the shortages. It's wiped

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Speaker 1: out eighty percent of the lettuce crops. And we've been

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Speaker 1: hearing the food outlets like KFCN Subway are using cabbage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those bags of letters. So I was at my

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Speaker 2: a leaves, the loose leaves in the and already prepackaged

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Speaker 2: in the bag. That was three dollars fifty So it's

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Speaker 2: a lot cheaper and not already washed. And that's usually

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Speaker 2: the expensive one. The usually you buy the Iceberg lettuce

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Speaker 2: because I reckon.

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Speaker 1: If you look closer at those mixed ones, it's probably

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Speaker 1: newspaper shoved in there.

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Speaker 2: One read anyone paper that sits on the side of

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Speaker 2: the plates. It's a moot.

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Speaker 1: It's a tell you what only Elon Musk can afford

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Speaker 1: to eat? A sanchoi bow I love I do too.

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Speaker 1: Do you know the SBS show Letters and Numbers has

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Speaker 1: replaced by Cabbage of Numbers?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Why do I do this show with you? I hate

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Speaker 1: you so much?

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Speaker 2: Why do you so much?

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Speaker 1: Craft did that joke? All morning?

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Speaker 2: Well, good for you.

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Speaker 1: Let's get on to the fact that this letter shortage

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Speaker 1: was predicted in a film, and we've spoken about this

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Speaker 1: recently in the film from nineteen seventy three called Soilent Green.

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Speaker 2: Silent Green because.

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Speaker 1: What happened in this movie Charlton Heston walks around being noisy.

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Speaker 1: But what there's a severe shortage of food and water,

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Speaker 1: and so there's a scene and it's.

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Speaker 2: Said in twenty twenty two, Oh, that's right, and this

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Speaker 2: came out seventy three.

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Speaker 1: There's poisoned water, the soil is polluted, animals are dead and.

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Speaker 2: Dye over population. A jar of.

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Speaker 1: Strawberry jam cost one hundred and fifty bucks. And in

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Speaker 1: one scene he's seen eating a lettuce leaf, the lettuce.

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Speaker 2: It's Chalten eating a lettuce. I haven't eaten like this

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Speaker 2: in years.

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Speaker 1: He was thrilled to have it.

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Speaker 2: That was one of the Illuminati eating the lettuce, because

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Speaker 2: all the Illuminati, the lizard people, they had access to lettuce. Chelton,

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Speaker 2: on the other hand, was a detective, and he discovered

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Speaker 2: that soilent green is not some protein bar soilent green, Chelten,

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Speaker 2: chalum silent breed is paper.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no chomping down on people.

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Speaker 2: Somehow.

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Speaker 1: See, if it was cheaper than twelve dollars, I'd eat it.

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Speaker 2: I'd be happy for it. Ahead of letters are just ahead.

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Speaker 2: Would it be fair to say that Chelton Heston in

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Speaker 2: all these movies just yelled at people and then he

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Speaker 2: kissed an ape.

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Speaker 1: So don't take a word of what he says as

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Speaker 1: a gospel