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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome back to Kuala Moon, your podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: and dream tonight. You are all in for a mega
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Speaker 1: trip down memory lane with Missus Pig from the Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans Diner. Soon we'll hear how she came to
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Speaker 1: be the best chef in the West, the world renowned
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Speaker 1: pig that whips up culinary magic with her trotters. For first,
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Speaker 1: don't forget to spread the Koala Moon love by telling
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Speaker 1: all your friends to have a listen to your favorite story. Now,
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Speaker 1: as I was saying, we're soon going to hear the
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Speaker 1: most fantastic origin story. We all know Missus Pig and
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Speaker 1: have heard how she can whip up a tasty miracle
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Speaker 1: in her kitchen. But have you ever wondered how she
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Speaker 1: became so able? What choices, events and luck brought her
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Speaker 1: to Potato and Beans diner in the middle of nowhere.
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Speaker 1: Well we're soon going to find out. But don't worry.
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Speaker 1: If you're not off, you can always catch up with
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Speaker 1: her incredible history another time. For now, lie back in bed,
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Speaker 1: have a little stretch and a wriggle. Maybe circle your
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Speaker 1: wrists and your ankles. Breathe in and out, take a
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Speaker 1: few calming breaths, just to clear your mind of everything
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Speaker 1: except the thought of a hot summery day in the desert.
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Speaker 1: Imagine your surround rounded in every direction by sand, cacti,
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Speaker 1: and sky. It's a dazzlingly hot day and one for
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Speaker 1: taking it easy and listening to stories. So it's time
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Speaker 1: to begin. Missus pigs Cooking School Dreams by Susannah McLaughlin.
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Speaker 1: One hot summer's day in the middle of nowhere, when
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Speaker 1: the heat made wiggly lines in the air above the tarmac,
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Speaker 1: and the cacti was sweating and mopping their faces with
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Speaker 1: their spiky arms, Missus Pig was taking a break. She'd
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Speaker 1: spent the morning in the air conditioned kitchen, making ice
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Speaker 1: cream in a huge machine. She whipped and curled and
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Speaker 1: cooled the cream until it was delicious, then sprinkled in
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Speaker 1: little chunks of fudge and frozen raspberries and chocolate chips.
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Speaker 1: Now it was the afternoon, and given it was too
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Speaker 1: hot for anyone to want a warm meal, she had
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Speaker 1: very little to do but to lounge in a booth
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Speaker 1: and chat. So that's what she did. The curly haired
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Speaker 1: post dog Zara had enjoyed the cool of the diner
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Speaker 1: so very much when she delivered today's post that she
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Speaker 1: flopped down on the bench next to Missus Pig and
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Speaker 1: decided she too, would take a break. They'd been nattering
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Speaker 1: for a while when Zara asked missus Pig a pretty
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Speaker 1: big question. How did you end up here at the diner?
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Speaker 1: She asked, Missus Pig grinned and said, now there is
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Speaker 1: a long story. Zara insisted that she had time, taking
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Speaker 1: off her post lady hat to prove it and waggling
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Speaker 1: her empty sack. So Missus Pig took a deep breath
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Speaker 1: and launched into a story. This is how it went.
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Speaker 1: Once upon a time, a piglet was borne by the
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Speaker 1: name of Missy. Zara interrupted her and said, Missy, that's
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Speaker 1: your first name, Missus, Missy pig, Missus pig nodded and
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Speaker 1: giggled and carried on. That piglet, everyone said, came out
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Speaker 1: jolly and pink cheeked and lovely, the bell of the ball,
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Speaker 1: they all called her. The Little Piggy grew up in
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Speaker 1: a green part of America, where there were rolling hills
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Speaker 1: and picturesque little towns made up of smatterings of little
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Speaker 1: wooden houses with picket fences. When little Missy went to
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Speaker 1: high school, she spent her spare time hanging out in diners,
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Speaker 1: drinking milkshakes through curly straws, and dancing to jukebox songs.
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Speaker 1: Outside of school, she worked at a doughnut shop, and
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Speaker 1: she always brought doughnut holes back for her family, dusted
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Speaker 1: with cinnamon and brown sugar. When she was nearly grown,
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Speaker 1: Missy graduated and went to Stanford to study aerospace engineering.
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Speaker 1: That's rocket science to you and me. Her mama was
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Speaker 1: a scientist and has always bought her rocket toys and
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Speaker 1: mobiles of dangling solar systems and little space man doles.
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Speaker 1: It was her dream for Missy to be a rocket
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Speaker 1: scientist like her, and for the longest time, Missy thought
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Speaker 1: that was her dream too, Even when she sat in
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Speaker 1: the auditorium on day one, looking up at the ceiling
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Speaker 1: on which an endless galaxy had been projected with little
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Speaker 1: whizzing shooting stars. She gazed up at Saturn with its
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Speaker 1: dusty golden surface and huge glowing rings, and thought she
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Speaker 1: was in exactly the right place. And she was, but
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Speaker 1: not for the reason. She thought she was in the
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Speaker 1: right place, because it was in that auditorium that she
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Speaker 1: met her best friend, a sheep named Barbara, who had
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Speaker 1: a big, poofy head of girls and a sassy attitude.
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Speaker 1: As the semester went on, Barbara's head got more and
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Speaker 1: more filled with stars and planets and graphs and maths,
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Speaker 1: but Missy stayed decidedly with her feet on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Barbara would explain quantum physics to her and launch into
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Speaker 1: debates about the mass of a black hole, but Missy
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Speaker 1: always found her thoughts drifting away to what she would
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Speaker 1: have for lunch. She was interested, she really was, but
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Speaker 1: she was starting to doubt that being a rocket scientist
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Speaker 1: was her calling. She didn't really like studying graphs and
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Speaker 1: her maths was all modeled. She was in one of
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Speaker 1: the best study programs in the world, but still her
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Speaker 1: favorite time of the day was when she got to
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Speaker 1: cook for her friends, and she much preferred looking at
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Speaker 1: the stars and learning about them. One day, when she
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Speaker 1: was in a lesson about astrophysics, taking notes with her
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Speaker 1: pink pen with the fluffy pomp on on top, her
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Speaker 1: mind drifted off and she began doodling. She drew cakes
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Speaker 1: with intricate decorations, gum drops arranged in rainbows, and swirls
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Speaker 1: of butter cream, and animals made of marsipan. So furiously
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Speaker 1: was she scribbling her ideas and recipes down in her notepad,
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Speaker 1: tongue stuck out in concentration that she didn't notice when
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Speaker 1: the auditorium emptied around her. Barbara was sitting in the
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Speaker 1: seat next to her, giggling at her friend's dedication to
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Speaker 1: her scribbles, which she had never seen before in any
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Speaker 1: of their classes. That was the day Missy realized she
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be a rocket scientist anymore. She wanted
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Speaker 1: to be a chef. So she sold her microscope and
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Speaker 1: her compasses and protractors and bought a pristine chef's coat
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Speaker 1: and tall white hat in their place. She wrote an
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Speaker 1: essay about the Perfect way to bake Chocolate Declare and
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Speaker 1: was accepted into the Cordon Bleu, the most prestigious cooking
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Speaker 1: school in all of the world. And that's how she
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Speaker 1: found herself in a little red plain with spinning propellers
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Speaker 1: flying over the Eiffel Tower on her way to her
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Speaker 1: new home Paris. Missy moved into a cozy little apartment
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Speaker 1: overlooking the River Sende, where she would sit on her
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Speaker 1: balcony with a baguette and a big piece of cheese
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Speaker 1: and watch the city go by. Beneath her, she watched
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Speaker 1: beautifully offered chihuahuas with designer handbags strutting down the river banks,
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Speaker 1: and otters in striped t shirts rowing boats along the water.
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Speaker 1: She watched the joy on the faces of guinea pig
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Speaker 1: tourists as they snapped photographs of Notre Dame, and admired
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Speaker 1: the pretty dresses of very wearing mice riding their bicycles.
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Speaker 1: Soon came her first day at the Cordon Bleu. She
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Speaker 1: phoned Barbara that morning Trotter's shaking, saying she was too
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Speaker 1: nervous to go and that she'd just give up and
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Speaker 1: come back home to be an astrophysicist again, but Barbara
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Speaker 1: told her not to worry. You're there to follow your dreams.
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Speaker 1: Missy Pig, she said, so stop worrying and go and
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Speaker 1: whip up a feast. Remember you are calm, you are cool,
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Speaker 1: you are confident. That's what Missy chanted as she went
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Speaker 1: through her day. I am calm, I am cool, I
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Speaker 1: am confident. She was still whispering it to herself as
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Speaker 1: she stood at her cooking station and the teacher came
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Speaker 1: through the door wearing the whitest, tallest chef hat she'd
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Speaker 1: ever seen. The professor, Chef Mineux, was an elegant black
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Speaker 1: cat with slick fur, who narrowed her eyes as she
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Speaker 1: looked at her students Biond Venue. She said, or welcome.
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Speaker 2: You each have been selected to be in my class,
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Speaker 2: as you have the potential to busy next generation's top chefs.
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Speaker 2: I'll teach you everything I know to flu for a souffle,
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Speaker 2: how to make moose from a marrow, how to cream
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Speaker 2: a coconut, how to mix one under an ebb and
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Speaker 2: spices to make them taste just like one.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready, missus? Nerves had dissipated, leaving nothing but determination.
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Speaker 1: She could cream coconuts and fluf soufles and moose marrows.
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Speaker 1: She was sure of it. She had never been so
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Speaker 1: sure of anything in her life. She straightened her hat,
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Speaker 1: and the cat gave her a special nod, like she
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Speaker 1: could tell that Missy was ready to cook. They spent
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Speaker 1: their first lesson just getting to know their kitchen, as
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Speaker 1: Chef Mineu led them through some strange exercises. She said
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Speaker 1: that before you even began to cook, to be a
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Speaker 1: top chef, you had to feel the energy of your
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Speaker 1: kitchen and speak to it, befriended, so you could work
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Speaker 1: together to make the best food. Missy thought this was
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Speaker 1: pretty strange, but she played along, even whispering a hello,
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Speaker 1: how are into the oven just in case it actually worked.
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Speaker 1: She felt a little flicker of warmth that took her
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Speaker 1: by surprise and made her begin to wonder if the
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Speaker 1: kitchen actually was listening. Then next lesson they were to
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Speaker 1: learn to respect their ingredients. Missy thought it was very
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Speaker 1: strange when she was told to bow down to a carrot,
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Speaker 1: but she knew Chef Mineu was the best in the world,
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Speaker 1: so she did as She was told by the end
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Speaker 1: of the word they were cooking. They started with what
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Speaker 1: Chef Mineu called the basics. The first a French favorite,
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Speaker 1: the omelet. Now Missy Pea thought she knew how to
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Speaker 1: make an omelet. Whisk up some eggs, chuck them in
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Speaker 1: a pan, and let it cook into something tasty. She'd
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Speaker 1: never really thought about it before. Omelets weren't oat cuisine.
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Speaker 1: They were something you made for breakfast when you'd run
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Speaker 1: out of jam and toast. But when Chef Mineu made
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Speaker 1: an omelet, it was an art form. She whipped the
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Speaker 1: eggs till they were foamy, picturing fluffy white clouds in
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Speaker 1: her head. To give them extra lightness, She melted yellow
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Speaker 1: butter in a pan, poured in the eggs, and stirred them.
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Speaker 1: Once they'd turned firm, she sprinkled in some cheese with
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Speaker 1: a delicate flick of her paw, and rolled the omelet
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Speaker 1: into a log shape. Then she served it on a
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Speaker 1: white plate with a few green flecks of herbs. She
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Speaker 1: handed each student to fork, and when Missy took a bite,
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Speaker 1: her eyebrows shot up under her chef hat. It was
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Speaker 1: like biting into a cloud. It was light and creamy,
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Speaker 1: and smooth and oh so delicious. It was a revelation.
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Speaker 1: It taught Missy that you didn't have to make fancy
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Speaker 1: food to be a chef. You just had to put
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Speaker 1: your heart into your cooking and make everything with passion
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Speaker 1: and skill, and she had bundles of both. There were
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Speaker 1: days when she didn't feel like a top chef, days
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Speaker 1: when her cakes flopped and her pies burnt, and Chef
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Speaker 1: Mineu would try her soup and say more salt. But
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Speaker 1: there were also days that she thought she was making
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Speaker 1: magic with her trotters and that no one else had
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Speaker 1: ever tasted food as delicious as hers. There was a
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Speaker 1: day when she made a chocolate sculpture in the shape
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Speaker 1: of a reindeer and they put it on the main
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Speaker 1: table at the Christmas party. There was another one where
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Speaker 1: she invented something she called pig soup that included all
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Speaker 1: of a pig's favorite vegetables squash, ciliac, pumpkin, and potato,
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Speaker 1: which Chef Mineu called ain't croyable and asked for the
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Speaker 1: recipe for. There was even a day when the head master,
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Speaker 1: a snail with a curly mustache, said he'd never seen
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Speaker 1: an onion chopped so fine and perfectly as hers. The
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Speaker 1: day she graduated, her Mamma and Papa came to Paris
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Speaker 1: and waved flags and chanted U s A as she
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Speaker 1: crossed the stage, making her blush and giggle. Her Papa
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Speaker 1: said he was so proud of her that he could burst.
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Speaker 1: He said he should have known she'd be a chef
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Speaker 1: from when she was a little girl making mud pies
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Speaker 1: and topping them with cherries from the cherry tree. Her
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Speaker 1: mama gave her a squeeze, and even though she was
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Speaker 1: fully grown, now called her her little chef and kissed
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Speaker 1: her on the snout. Then, when she graduated, she was
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Speaker 1: hired as a chef in a restaurant in New York City.
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Speaker 1: Her dreams had come true. The restaurant was owned by
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Speaker 1: a stalk by the name of Mapple, who had moved
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Speaker 1: from China to open a dumpling stand. The place was
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Speaker 1: so popular that it grew and grew until he now
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Speaker 1: had the most famous, swankiest restaurant in the whole of
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Speaker 1: the city, situated right at the top of the Empire
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Speaker 1: State Building. She learnt so much from the team there,
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Speaker 1: spending her days folding dumplings and making fillings of the
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Speaker 1: most unexpected combinations. She would be in charge of huge
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Speaker 1: rats of soup and spicy sweet sauces, and she'd spend
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Speaker 1: morning to night working hard and shouting yes Chef as
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Speaker 1: the stork flapped around the kitchen, saying more garlic here
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Speaker 1: or less ginger there, or calling one dish sublime and
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Speaker 1: another abominable. Missy pigs dishes were always in the former category.
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Speaker 1: She and Chef Mapple were fast friends, as she was
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Speaker 1: the ying to his yang, the calm to his flappy energy,
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Speaker 1: and she learnt so much from him about Chinese flavors
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Speaker 1: and recipes that she thought she'd run out of room
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Speaker 1: in her brain, but she never did. It was after
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Speaker 1: a few years that she decided to move to the South,
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Speaker 1: and the reason was simple. She missed her best friend, Barbara.
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Speaker 1: Barbara now worked for NASA, the National Animals in Space
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Speaker 1: Association as a rocket engineer. The headquarters were set amongst orange,
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Speaker 1: dusty plains, where the sky seemed infinite and the sun
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Speaker 1: glowed huge and round. Sometimes Missy Pig looked out at
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Speaker 1: the sky scrapers sprawling out beneath her window and thought
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Speaker 1: that maybe it was time that she saw more of
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Speaker 1: the sky and more of her bestest friend, who was
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Speaker 1: her very favorite person to cook for. So she hopped
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Speaker 1: back on her little plain and down south she went
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Speaker 1: to see Barbara. Missy immediately fell in love with the South,
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Speaker 1: with the rolling open spaces and the rocky canyons, and
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Speaker 1: the millions and millions of stars that hung in the sky.
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Speaker 1: It seemed that there the sky there had been decorated
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Speaker 1: much more thoroughly than anywhere else in the world. You
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Speaker 1: could see sparkling, shooting stars and slow floating satellites and
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Speaker 1: glowing comets night after night. Missy felt like she was
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Speaker 1: home when she visited Barbara at NASA. She was so
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Speaker 1: happy to see her friend achieving so much. Barbara showed
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Speaker 1: her the rocket she'd helped to make, and it was
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Speaker 1: a huge, shining thing, and its name well on the
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Speaker 1: side was engraved Missy Pig. Barbara said, who else would
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Speaker 1: she name her creation after if not her best friend.
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Speaker 1: The rocket was launched the next day, and Missy was
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Speaker 1: the one allowed to do the countdown through the microphone.
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Speaker 1: Then at zero, she and Barbara watched through glamorous sunglasses
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Speaker 1: as the Missy Pig took off into space, where it
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Speaker 1: was headed for the red planet Mars. It was at
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Speaker 1: the after launch party that she met a shy hog
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Speaker 1: with hairy ears and little round spectacles. He told her
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Speaker 1: his theories and ideas about space and the stars and
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Speaker 1: made her laugh with his jokes. The two fell in
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Speaker 1: love and soon married, where Missy Pig became Missus Missy
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Speaker 1: Pig or missus Pig for short. It was around this
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Speaker 1: time that two plucky cats by the name of Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans pulled on their cowboy boots and headed out
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Speaker 1: into the middle of nowhere to build their dream diner.
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Speaker 1: When missus Pig saw it, she was on her way
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Speaker 1: back from her honeymoon from a road trip down Route
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Speaker 1: sixty six. She put on the brakes, brushed back her headscarf,
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Speaker 1: and pulled her sunglasses down her snout. That's it, she
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Speaker 1: said to mister Hogg. You see that diner. It's perfect.
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Speaker 1: That's where I work now. It's just like the ones
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Speaker 1: I went to as a girl. And no matter what
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Speaker 1: you're making, whether oh cuisine or diner dishes, if you
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Speaker 1: cook with love and skill, you're a top chef. Missus
00:21:53
Speaker 1: Pig got out of the convertible and went to tap
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Speaker 1: on the diner door they weren't open yet, though it
00:22:00
Speaker 1: seemed they were just putting the finishing touches on the diner.
00:22:04
Speaker 1: A bull was hoisting the neon sign over the door
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Speaker 1: that read Potato and Beans's Diner, and a cow was
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Speaker 1: laying tarmac in the car park. She called koui through
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Speaker 1: the glass door and was ushered inside by the two
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Speaker 1: cats who were polishing the countertops. They introduced themselves as
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Speaker 1: the owners of this new little slice of heaven. Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans Potato whipped missus Pig up a milkshake, and
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Speaker 1: Beans sent one out to mister Hogg, who was waiting
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Speaker 1: in the car. Are you looking for a chef, missus
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Speaker 1: Peg asked the cats, because I am one a chef,
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Speaker 1: I mean The cats nodded and smiled. Yes, we are,
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Speaker 1: the cat with the splotches, Beans answered, but not stenny chef.
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Speaker 1: We're looking for the very best one, maybe the best
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Speaker 1: in the world. Do you want to apply? Missus Pig
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Speaker 1: grinned and nodded, asking for an application form. There's no form,
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Speaker 1: Potato said, You've just got to cook us something really tasty,
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Speaker 1: really impressive. Missus Pig felt a butterfly flutter in her tummy. Okay,
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Speaker 1: she said, letting her trotters carry her through the saloon
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Speaker 1: doors that led to the kitchen. She opened the cupboards
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Speaker 1: and peered into the fridge. There was so much she
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Speaker 1: could make, beets bourgignon, a tat tatan, some kung paw tofu.
00:23:55
Speaker 1: As she thought, the butterflies multiplied in her tummy. She
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Speaker 1: looked down at the shiny pan resting on the hob
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Speaker 1: and took a deep breath. I am calm, I am cool,
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Speaker 1: I am confident, she whispered to herself. Then she cracked
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Speaker 1: three eggs in a bowl and began to whisk. When
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Speaker 1: she placed the plate in front of potato and beans,
00:24:27
Speaker 1: their mouths began to water. They poked at the omelet
00:24:32
Speaker 1: she had presented to feel how perfectly fluffy and springy
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Speaker 1: the texture was. Then they each took a bite. Both
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Speaker 1: cats closed their eyes as they chewed and then swallowed.
00:24:48
Speaker 1: Missus Pig held her breath as they looked at one another.
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Speaker 1: We found her, bean said, the best chef in the world.
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Speaker 1: The two cats joined paus and began bouncing around in
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Speaker 1: a circle, and soon Missus Pig joined in her arms
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Speaker 1: in the air, giggling and cheering. The rest is history.
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Speaker 1: Missus Pig has cooked at the diner most days since then.
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Speaker 1: Every morning when she wakes up, she smiles because all
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Speaker 1: her dreams came true. She is a chef with a
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Speaker 1: star gazing hog for a husband, and a bunch of
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Speaker 1: piglets at home, and a whole lot of best friends.
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Speaker 1: Her sassy sheep named Barbara, two cats by the names
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Speaker 1: of Potato and Beans, and a dish washing rock music
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Speaker 1: listening octopus called Ozzy. What a lucky, lucky pig she was.
00:26:01
Speaker 1: Zara the post dog smiled as Missus Pig finished her story.
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Speaker 1: An a post dog named Zara, she added, and a
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Speaker 1: post dog named Zara, missus Pig agreed. Outside, the stars
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Speaker 1: had begun to shine, and the sky had turned orange
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Speaker 1: and lilac blue. A honk came from a convertible that
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Speaker 1: pulled up in the car park. There was an orange,
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Speaker 1: hairy hog in a leather jacket in the front seat,
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Speaker 1: and a gaggle of piglets waving out from the back seat.
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Speaker 1: That's my ride, missus Pigs said, kissing Zara on the
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Speaker 1: cheek and waving good bye to all of her friends
00:26:58
Speaker 1: at the diner. And then Zara watched as the car
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Speaker 1: trundled off into the distance on its way to a
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Speaker 1: little wooden house with a white picket fence, plunked in
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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, with very little close by save
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Speaker 1: for the National Animals in Space Headquarters and a little
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Speaker 1: diner with a red Neon sign. Zara grinned Missy was
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Speaker 1: a very lucky pig. Indeed,