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I think from time to time
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everyone wonders how
it would be to be someone else
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somewhere else.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I bet the
Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma
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imagine what life would be like
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if he were the billionaire of
Indian technology Shiv Nadar.
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My life is very beautiful,
and I know it's wrong to ask for more
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but sometimes I can't help it
to think about how beautiful it would be
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work for Program Control
of the Alberta Rats in Canada.
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The organization that maintained the
province completely free from rats.
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I usually don't tell anyone,
but since Sarah kept her promise
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not to let me fall off his snowmobile
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and he said he was dreaming
to play the French horn
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in the Cleveland Philharmonic...
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He tried but failed three times.
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I thought I owed her something
honest and revealing.
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{\an8}Joe Pera Tells You About
Rat War of Alberta, Canada
(1950-Present)
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Really?
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Yes, that would be a fantastic job
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drive every day for the
Medicine Hat campaign,
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inspecting all the barns
looking for rat nests.
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There are no rats in Alberta?
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Yes. I thought everyone knew.
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I thought rats were,
like, always everywhere.
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No, on the contrary.
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Because she seemed interested,
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Itold Sarah what I knew about the
Rat War in Alberta, Canada
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in the following three hours.
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Since the rats first arrived
time on the Saskatchewan border in 1950,
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and harvest supervisor William
Lobay conceived a way to stop them
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Through program creation
official that continues to this day
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and it will forever, because rats don't
they will never stop trying to get in.
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So he's telling us
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that there is a war going on in
North America for almost 60 years
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between Canadian humans and rats,
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and no one talks about it?
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It's crazy, right?
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We have to make the musical out of this thing.
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Fuck “Hello, Dolly.”
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Yes, I would see it as a show about rats.
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Only two months left, though.
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You can do it.
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We have to do it.
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Yes. We can do it.
I think we can...
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Working at my usual pace,
It would have taken me 10 years to finish
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but when he said it,
something happened.
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I was swollen with music,
and it started to come out...
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I think I have a start.
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...and it kept coming out.
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- What do you think?
- Wow. Wow.
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This was a problem, though.
In "The Civil War",
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Ken Burns looked back on four years of
story in 11 and a half hours of documentary.
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I had to tell 68 years of history.
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I almost left out a scene on the
public education campaign of 1963.
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You knew that at the beginning
many Albertans
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They didn't even know that
what did rats look like?
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I'm serious.
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I want you to go to her,
you hug her and give her a nice smile.
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The news certainly has
made rural residents...
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Alright, folks. If you hear me,
clap once.
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If you hear me, clap once.
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Great work. Ok, it's time to go,
so let's go to our meeting points.
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Ok, and Mr Pera, do you want to say something?
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Okay.
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Do it.
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Okay.
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Everyone in your seats.
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The news that went
broadcast on the BBC...
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Hey, is everything okay?
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Yes, I'm just working on mine
pre-show presentation.
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What's that, like 60 pages?
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I think the audience will appreciate it
even more the show if
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will get some
basic information on
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Canadian geography and on
rodent taxonomy and...
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- Are they paying us for this evening?
- No.
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Joe, I think you might bore them.
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Limit yourself to "The emergency exits..." e
"Thank you for coming..." etc...
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- It's only 15 minutes.
- No.
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Joe, just tell them to turn off their cell phones.
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I have to go warm up the orchestra
in the pit. Good luck.
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Okay.
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Uh... hello. Thanks for coming,
there is an emergency exit there.
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I think from time to time
everyone wonders how
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it would be to be someone else
somewhere else.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I bet
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also the billionaire of
Chinese technology Jack Ma...
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Sarah?
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This would have had so much more
sense if they had seen a map.
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Why don't we use a rat killer?
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It is safer than arsenic.
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- But how do we make him eat it?
- Three words...
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hidden inside the oats.
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Good idea.
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- That was so cool, Joe.
- Thanks, Gene.
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That's a man with a mission.
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Sarah?
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Can I talk to you for a moment?
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Oh, yes. Certain.
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It was a good show, huh?
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I didn't like it at all
the way you silenced me.
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I had a lot to say.
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Come on, Joe.
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The audience must have been very confused.
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I am sorry. I think we have tonight
much to be proud of.
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You know, the children were very good,
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and the parents loved it.
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What more do you want?
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The fun is in the information and
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in details, and they didn't know them.
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It's an important thing.
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It's a comedy about rats.
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It's... I mean, nothing
against you or the boys but...
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it's not a big deal...
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Especially when you think about that
what's happening, you know?
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There is the increase in level
of water and nuclear war,
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and there is population displacement,
the drones... ours and theirs.
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You know, there's a...
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What... what about flares
solar, huh? Have you ever thought about it?
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Or the volcano of
Yellowstone... what can you tell me?
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Or what does he say about the fact that
at any time
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there could be an attack on ours
electricity grid? What will you do then?
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What will you do then?
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Is this what... Is this what you think?
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It would be stupid not to.
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You'd be stupid not to have one
fortified basement...
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with canned food and
water and a generator...
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and medical supplies for
barter and use because it would be...
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What will you do when you don't
will you have more cash?
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Ooooh! And I like you, but I shouldn't,
because between your glasses...
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and the fact that you can't even
not caring about a children's musical,
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you probably have less than 10%
of possibility of survival.
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Every bone in my body says that
you won't last beyond the first wave
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why do you keep talking about chopsticks and
ping-pong and singing songs and ding-dongs!
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- Do you like me?
- I would just like...
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that I thought about real things.
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I got you this knife
for opening night.
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It's certainly big.
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Joe!
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You and Sarah were really good.
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I had no idea what rats were
liked to eat scrambled eggs.
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- Glad you liked it.
- Yes.
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Nicole, you did great.
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You really inspired me to go
to kill some rats.
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