G'day, guys.
(It's) Pete here.
How is it going?
Welcome to today's episode of Aussie Accents, guys, Aussie Accents.
The whole point of these episodes is to expose you to as many different Aussie accents as
possible to help you guys improve your listening comprehension and understand the Aussie accent.
I know it's hard.
Today, I have a really good episode for you guys.
It's a short snippet from a documentary called Inside Shalom House: Australia's 'strictest'
drug rehabilitation centre.
This was from an Australian Story, a series of documentaries about Aussies.
It was created by ABC.
Go to their page.
The link is below.
Give them a like and subscribe, and if you want to watch the full documentary you can
do so there.
But this documentary is all about Peter Lyndon-James who was a former drug addict and criminal,
but he turned his life around and opened Australia's strictest rehabilitation centre for drug addicts
in order to change people's lives.
You guys are going to get great exposure to a number of different Aussie accents in today's
episode, and I think also a Scot as well.
So, sit back, grab a cuppa, and let's practice our listening comprehension of Aussie accents.
Peter has that personality that attracts people.
When I met him he was 19 and I was 17.
My friend kind of knew him and he... she was like, "Oh!
Don't go near him, you know, he's bad news" kind of thing.
But he had a lot of charisma.
And yeah, kind of, I was attracted to him.
I'm from the country.
So, my upbringing was quite different from Peter's.
She was a geek.
You know, a farmer's daughter.
Head girl at school.
Dux.
Didn't swear, didn't smoke.
So, we started seeing each other.
I guess, as time went on, he started introducing me to drugs.
Then we were married in '94.
We had our first son '95.
I mean even though we were on drugs, the kids are still going to school, daycare.
I mean, we were still trying to keep life as normal as possible.
My childhood was good.
Adventurous, different, open to a lot of things most kids probably wouldn't see.
I just got more into drugs and I thought I was well start on drugs for a living.
And so, like everything I do I give it 100 percent, and within three months, I was selling
on average of two and half kilos of methamphetamines a day.
Heaps of guns, explosives.
I was doing, 9mils, 44s, glocks, gangster guns, you name it.
I had even subbies and some other stuff.
You know, I went really really really big really really quick.
I remember always being lots of money, lots and lots of money, guns and suitcases, lots
of police just coming and running after him and tackling him to the ground and stuff.
We used to get raided a fair bit.
I remember one occasion that we got up one morning and the helicopter was coming over
the roof.
TRG come through front by shotguns, bullet-proof vest.
That's when I spent a night in lockup, and then the charges came through and Pete ends
up going to jail for a year.
People would say, "Oh, why didn't you leave?".
I mean, I was actually using as well.
So, for me that was normal.
I drove my wife through a world of evil that she didn't belong in.
And yet, she just stayed by my side through it all.
If he hadn't have got his life sorted out, I dread to think where he would ended up,
because, you know, he got a drug habit, I think about seven thousand dollars a week.
And he was paranoid, terrible nightmares, and I things.
He was in a mess.
I started hearing voices in my head, and I wasn't looping out, even though I used to
loop out.
I was a pretty good looper.
But, I started hearing voices in my head, and this voice kept saying, "Pete, I want
you to follow me.
I want you to follow me."
And I pushed the boys aside, and hear "Pete, I want to follow me".
I'm telling my woman, "Amanda, something weird's going down".
And she said, "oh, you're just looping out off the gear".
I had a dream.
And in my dream God said to me, he said, "Peter.
Peter you're going to tell people...
You're going to tell people how I've changed your life."
He woke up one morning and said we needed to go to church.
And again, I was thinking this was just psychosis.
I went along with and everything.
And just the change in him.
Just begging me for forgiveness.
Just completely turning his back to the drugs, to the people that he was around.
I was thinking this is really weird.
Two years later, we were buying our own house, and then we had a gardening and landscaping
business.
And our kids healthy, and going to the same school.
And yeah it was amazing.
So, I hope you enjoy that episode, guys.
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I hope it helps guys, and I'll see you in the next episode.
Peace out.