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What's Happening at the Courthouse: A woman's fight for justice and her home · "What's happening at the Courthouse?" with Rameez Khan

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  Speaker 1: Is where it ends. For all, court is where it begins.
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  Speaker 2: This is a no TV show.
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  Speaker 1: This is the real world, and this is what's happening
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  Speaker 1: at the courthouse on KFM Mornings with for Me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so in the city, this is where it is,
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  Speaker 3: patrolling the courts and asking everybody one simple question, what are.
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  Speaker 1: You doing at the court house today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for a protection order. People are trying to
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  Speaker 2: get me after the house. I've been living in there
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  Speaker 2: for twenty nine years. They are trying to victnimy. The
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  Speaker 2: lady that says she owns her hous has got no
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  Speaker 2: proof that she even owns us, and she's wants to
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  Speaker 2: go nextcess to us. And I'm getting threatened, intimidated, and
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  Speaker 2: all those things are happening to me.
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  Speaker 4: So obviously the protection order will help you stop the
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  Speaker 4: threats in all of the intimidation.
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  Speaker 1: Whose house is it?
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  Speaker 2: The house used to belong to communicate which I sold
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  Speaker 2: to this lady? Okay, But this lady that's coming there
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  Speaker 2: is not the legal owner of the property. She's some
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  Speaker 2: other woman randomly says she owns the property.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but no, how do you end up there for
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  Speaker 4: twenty nine years?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was staying there.
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  Speaker 2: I rented from Communicate for twenty nine years.
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  Speaker 1: Where's Communicating now?
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  Speaker 2: They are right after they sold all their into Laus
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  Speaker 2: and they're out of the soul emotion that's going on here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see what you mean. So then how does
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  Speaker 4: this lady fit in with you?
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  Speaker 1: Like, how do you know her? I don't know she's
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where. It just came out of nowhere. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that makes no sense, ma'am. I believe it. That's what's happening. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you paying? Now?
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  Speaker 2: You a pine rat until the end of the month,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still pine rating.
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  Speaker 4: But this person that you're paying it to, did they
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  Speaker 4: buy this from Communicating?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: She did, and the other random woman coming to say
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  Speaker 2: she bought us property.
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  Speaker 1: But this is like fraudin there is.
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  Speaker 2: Something not right going on here.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely all right.
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  Speaker 1: What area is this way? Where are you staying? I'm
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  Speaker 1: staying in Brooklyn? Oh, okay, twenty nine years. How are
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  Speaker 1: you feeling about this righting?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm feeling threatened my life. It's being threatened because
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  Speaker 2: she's not got any papers to prove that the property
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  Speaker 2: belongs to her.
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  Speaker 4: So speak to the person that you're paying the rint to.
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  Speaker 4: What is that person saying, well, my sister.
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  Speaker 2: Is perceive there things, but I don't know because at
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  Speaker 2: the moment under investigations. Range investigates in this case, and
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  Speaker 2: we will get the results by the end of September
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  Speaker 2: this year. I mean, like I said to her, look,
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  Speaker 2: you have to take me to court, take me. Let
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  Speaker 2: the sheriff put me at because that's the only person
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  Speaker 2: that can vicni of this property, is the sheriff.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you go from here if they do a victim?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know because I'm a painter, I'm sixty five
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  Speaker 2: years old, I'm a single mom.
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  Speaker 1: I've got no idea. How much rint do you pay
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  Speaker 1: that you're paying.
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  Speaker 2: His four thousand and plus the sewage?
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  Speaker 1: I don't zurag is because this is not bad day.
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  Speaker 1: Thet is not bad day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the new.
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  Speaker 2: Owner wanted more and we refused to give up. We
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  Speaker 2: said we'll pay her what we piled communicate, which we've
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  Speaker 2: been doing until that's the end of this month.
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  Speaker 4: So hopefully by the end of this month he'll find
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  Speaker 4: out exactly what's going on. I leave it all in
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  Speaker 4: the lord's and thank you very much for your time,
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  Speaker 4: man pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing at the courthouse today.
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  Speaker 5: My husband said, a runner out for the worse, but
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  Speaker 5: doesn't actually serve papers, so you could get out of
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  Speaker 5: his responsibilities in But.
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  Speaker 1: Now is he from South Africa?
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  Speaker 5: Where he's from South Africa? But he works in America farming.
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  Speaker 4: That job will definitely make him lots of money and
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  Speaker 4: also you and also he will definitely be protected there
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  Speaker 4: because they wouldn't want to deport him because they need him.
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  Speaker 5: They won't support him. He's just not right by his
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  Speaker 5: his files.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any kids with him? No, he obviously
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  Speaker 1: files with divorce.
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  Speaker 5: He did that sneakily behind my birth in order to
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  Speaker 5: get to America. But he wasn't actually planning to serve
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  Speaker 5: new papers. He blocked me everywhere, he went cold.
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  Speaker 1: What are you trying to achieve here?
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  Speaker 5: Fairness? Absolutely, I'm a brilliant candidate for for maintenance sports.
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  Speaker 5: Justice needs to be served, he needs.
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  Speaker 1: To be Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: For myself, okay, because I followed him overseas on a
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  Speaker 5: spouse visa and I couldn't work legally, so I left
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  Speaker 5: my job. I gave up everything and.
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  Speaker 1: Something go wrong, like with him or with you.
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  Speaker 5: He has in measurement problems with his mother. He's a
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  Speaker 5: mummy's boy, the mummy where she negated. She's a little town,
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  Speaker 5: little Dorpy, two hours away from Cape Town. He was
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  Speaker 5: living with her in December because he refused to live
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  Speaker 5: with my mom and me, so within that month things
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  Speaker 5: went off. But he's surrounded by his people, his family,
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  Speaker 5: his friends, and smear campaigns.
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  Speaker 1: Blaming you, blaming me.
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  Speaker 5: And I've given everything to this.
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  Speaker 4: Marriage, so there was no like third party or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Third mother.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I did. Always at Murny's everything. He wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: know how to go to an attorney, how to get
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  Speaker 5: an attorneys.
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  Speaker 1: It's all his mother's doing. Wow. Man, Yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a real thing.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not the only woman in the world where
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  Speaker 5: has experienced this because what they've done is actually ruined
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  Speaker 5: my life. He owes me hundreds of thousands of frands.
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  Speaker 5: He owes my mother a fair amount of money too.
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  Speaker 5: He knows he does, and he's now blaming he does.
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  Speaker 1: Need. You don't deserve that, man, No one deserves it.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, if it's a small price to pay
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  Speaker 5: to be here to get what's fair and right, then
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  Speaker 5: you'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm standing up for all the other women out there
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  Speaker 5: that are in the same position, you know, taking what's fair.
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  Speaker 5: That's all my life's savings you paid me for full
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  Speaker 5: and swindled.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, thank you very much for your time.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: It's a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's always a mess the courts. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: The more she went on, the more I just got
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  Speaker 1: so angry.
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  Speaker 6: For her and also just so sad for her because
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  Speaker 6: I can tell that she's poured so much of a time,
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  Speaker 6: of the energy of her money and resources into this stay.
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  Speaker 1: They say, the toughest thing you can do is obviously move.
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  Speaker 1: She moved across the world. She left her job, hoping
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  Speaker 1: that he'd look after her.
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  Speaker 3: Very lucrative job that farming in America. How many South
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  Speaker 3: African farmers do you think are working on temporary visas
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  Speaker 3: because it's contract work. You go there for six months,
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  Speaker 3: seven months, eight months, you come back here for four
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  Speaker 3: and you go back the next year. How many do
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  Speaker 3: you think are currently there?
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  Speaker 6: How many thousands?
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  Speaker 3: When I was going when I went on holiday, now
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  Speaker 3: there was a whole bunch of farmers on their way
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, it's you. You're farming there.
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  Speaker 3: Because he was in the car key already with the family,
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  Speaker 3: in the uniform, in the uniform, already did the ground
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  Speaker 3: running day one. And I said, so you drive a
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  Speaker 3: tractor there on one of these in Michigan or something.
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  Speaker 3: He says, No, those are TikTok farmers. I'm a real farmer,
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  Speaker 3: not one of those TikTok farming guards. Yeah, you see're
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  Speaker 3: driving the tractor. Fifteen thousand South African farmers currently working
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  Speaker 3: in the United States fifteen thousand and her ex is
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  Speaker 3: one of those. Fifteen thousand