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120: The Emu War · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: You're listening to an Airwave media podcast. Oh delicious friends,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to Who Died What Now? The history podcast
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Speaker 1: That's not your history class with me your host Katie Charlwood,
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Speaker 1: History Harla and reader of books. Yes, my voice does
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Speaker 1: sound a wee bit weird this week. Thank you for noticing. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I clearly cannot take care of myself after a live show,
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Speaker 1: slash performance, slash anything like that, because every time bugger
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Speaker 1: up my voice a wee bit, I think I have
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Speaker 1: to like start drinking lemon and honey or whatever they
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Speaker 1: gave Matthew Lillard on the Scooby Doo movies, because that's
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Speaker 1: what I need, because clearly I get very intense on
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Speaker 1: the stage, so mainly the rant at the end of
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Speaker 1: Jack the Ripper, which won't be on the recorded version,
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Speaker 1: because here's here's what happens. Usually, typically I film my
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Speaker 1: live shows and they go upon my Patreon. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: for some reason, maybe it was human error, maybe somebody
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Speaker 1: forgot to press the record button. Maybe that somebody was me.
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Speaker 1: I thought I pressed it. I could have swore and
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Speaker 1: I pressed it, but clearly I did not, So I
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Speaker 1: did not record the show, which is a shame because
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Speaker 1: it was very funny because I went off on many
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Speaker 1: many tangents, as is my way. But yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: a really great show in the comedy Calvin Coughlin's comedy
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Speaker 1: Calvin and Cork. I think it's actually one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite shows I've ever done. It was sold out, which
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Speaker 1: was amazing, and the place was full, like it was
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Speaker 1: packed to the point where there was just no space
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Speaker 1: to fit any more people in, at least not in
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Speaker 1: a safe manner. So it was fabulous and it was great
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Speaker 1: and people were chatting. It was just a good good
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Speaker 1: time and that's fine in itself. But I live at
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Speaker 1: the very top of the country and Cork is at
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Speaker 1: the very bottom of the country. So if you don't
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Speaker 1: know Irish geography, like I'm at the top, it's the
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Speaker 1: bottom and there's no real easy direct route. So it's
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Speaker 1: actually easier and cheaper for me and not exactly the
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Speaker 1: longest journey either for me to fly from Duneygall to
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Speaker 1: Dublin and then get the bus from Dublin to Cork.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I did, and I did the reverse.
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Speaker 1: But as I land in Dublin Airport Sunday morning, there's
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Speaker 1: this massive Q outside and I'm like, this is wild.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a queue outside the airport before. It
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Speaker 1: turns out that in that area there had been a
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Speaker 1: power outage. It affected Terminal two, but not Terminal one.
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Speaker 1: So we are just in this massive Q outside. It's
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Speaker 1: further than the length of the bull It's like double
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Speaker 1: the size of the building. And I'm at the back
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Speaker 1: of it at this point. And an hour goes by
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Speaker 1: and I'm somewhere in the middle, and you know, We've
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Speaker 1: had people come down and they're going, we're looking for
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Speaker 1: like Jet Blue passengers, come with us. If you're Jet
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Speaker 1: Blue or Airlink is flight to Chicago at eleven o five,
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Speaker 1: come with us now, you know, things like that. Because
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Speaker 1: all of the power out to do they had auxiliary
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Speaker 1: power on. They managed to get what was going, but
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Speaker 1: like the escalators weren't working. There was like one lift
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Speaker 1: for emergencies and for accessibility and stuff, but like the
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Speaker 1: escalators were down, we were running up stairs. Was very fun,
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Speaker 1: and the check in had to be all manual check
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Speaker 1: it so like for your cases, if you were checking
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Speaker 1: in a bag, it all had to be done manually
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Speaker 1: because the conveyor belts weren't working. Either. So it was
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Speaker 1: like a whole situation. And so it gets to the
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Speaker 1: point where we're standing there and somebody goes, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask and see what's going on. And
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Speaker 1: she goes up and she comes back and she's like,
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Speaker 1: there's a line on the other side of the airport
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Speaker 1: coming in from the other direction, and like there's no
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Speaker 1: real movement, and it was just like, shit, Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess we'll just wait another way. Well, and then
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Speaker 1: another woman goes up and asks, because it's always women,
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Speaker 1: she goes up and asks and comes back and she goes, yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you have to drop in a bag, you're doing
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Speaker 1: it with such and such. But if you've already pre
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Speaker 1: checked it and you've got only hand luggage, you can
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Speaker 1: just go in. And I was like, sweet, finally traveling
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Speaker 1: light has worked for me. And so if I go
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Speaker 1: ahead into the airport and there's just queues everywhere, anyway,
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Speaker 1: I run up the stairs, I get to where I
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Speaker 1: need to be, I go through security, which isn't actually
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Speaker 1: that crazy because most people are stuck checking it. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: get through the airport and as I walk in and
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Speaker 1: get past security, the line for tsa the TSA pre
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Speaker 1: check for going to the States is running the length
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Speaker 1: of just the area of past security. And because I have
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Speaker 1: to go down to my gate, and my gate to
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Speaker 1: get to there is I have to go past the
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Speaker 1: pre check again. So when I get down there, the
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Speaker 1: line is going all the way through. It's like doubling
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Speaker 1: back through the place. It was just crazy, Like luckily
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Speaker 1: loads of you know, flights were delayed, like my flight
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Speaker 1: was delayed by an hour. But I was like worst
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Speaker 1: case scenario. I was starting outside like, eh, I might
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Speaker 1: get the bus home, I'll figure it out, like it's fine.
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Speaker 1: As I was too chiled and to like be that
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Speaker 1: worried about it. I think when you live in a
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Speaker 1: state of consistent anxiety my ADHD life, that when you're
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Speaker 1: faced with an actual issue and problem, you're like super
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Speaker 1: chill about it because you're like, oh, I've prepared for this.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, quit
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Speaker 1: your jibber jabber in fact me, in fact you I will.
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Speaker 1: But first we've got to get our source on. Our
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Speaker 1: sources are looking back Australia's Emu Wars by Jasper Gardner Gore.
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Speaker 1: The Great Emu War, in which some large flightless birds
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Speaker 1: unwittingly foiled the Australian Army by Beck Crew. A Handbook
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Speaker 1: of the Birds of Western Australia by Hubert Massey Whittell
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Speaker 1: and Dominic Lewis, Servanty Boom and bust Bud. Stories for
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Speaker 1: a Dry Country by Rob henschen, Leo Joseph and Libby Robin.
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Speaker 1: I also have some really fun articles contemporary articles from
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Speaker 1: the Argus in Perth. We have EMU War Defended, Rain Scatters,
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Speaker 1: EMUs Lusive, EMUs War on EMUs, and EMU War again.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, and of course our old favorite history dot com.
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Speaker 1: So I use it in comfortably good. Then let's begin
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Speaker 1: that being said before we get into anything this week.
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Speaker 1: I'm well aware that the last episode The Kerry Babies
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Speaker 1: was very heavy. It was traumatic and gut ranging, which
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Speaker 1: is why it had a warning. But I know a
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Speaker 1: few people that had to like just take a break,
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Speaker 1: and they had to just, I don't know, watch Bluey
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Speaker 1: or something just to completely chill out, you know, some
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Speaker 1: fraggle rock. But I really don't like doing stuff that's
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Speaker 1: too heavy one after another because I don't need to
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Speaker 1: be like immersing myself in sort of that rage and
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Speaker 1: pain and fear, and so I always try and make
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Speaker 1: things a bit easier, so that whenever I do a
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Speaker 1: sort of heavy episode like The Kerry Babies, that I
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Speaker 1: would do something a wee bit sillier afterwards. Because history,
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Speaker 1: although full of very sad, very horrific events, also had
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Speaker 1: some funny shit happen, like when Australia fought the EMUs
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Speaker 1: and the Amius won spoiler alert. But let me tell
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Speaker 1: you for why. So during the First World War, Australia
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Speaker 1: starts this soldier settlement scheme. I'm not saying that it's
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Speaker 1: bad that it's a scheme. You know, schemes aren't automatically nefarious.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they just really liked deliteration hymns to say. So
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Speaker 1: the soldier settlement scheme, it starts like twenty fifteen. I think, no,
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Speaker 1: that's wrong. That's a whole millennium in the wrong direction. No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: let's let's not do that. That is incorrect nineteen fifteen.
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Speaker 1: So basically, there's this perception of as very rose tinted
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Speaker 1: glasses of it. Right, there's this thing called the Yeoman ideal,
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Speaker 1: and it's this view that agricultural activity is virtuous and
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Speaker 1: there's a sort of societal value of farming communities. Now,
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Speaker 1: what this basically means is they think that if you
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Speaker 1: live in a farming community and you're involved in that
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Speaker 1: sort of rural agricultural society, that you're going to be
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Speaker 1: sort of like a nicer, better person. You are going
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Speaker 1: to be a more productive member of society, not only
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Speaker 1: from like a you know, a physical point of view
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Speaker 1: and economic point of view, because you are providing you know, food,
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Speaker 1: because you're growing food to eat and whatnot, but you're
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Speaker 1: also sort of boosting sort of morality and good family
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Speaker 1: values and work ethic and everything that sort of is
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Speaker 1: the core of like good society. Yeah, yeady at So
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Speaker 1: there's this belief that it's going to create social stability
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Speaker 1: and economic productivity, which is just good for everybody, you know.
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Speaker 1: And the whole point is that anyone who is discharged
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Speaker 1: from the army, they are given these plots of land.
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Speaker 1: Because when soldiers were discharged from the army, when they
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Speaker 1: returned from war, whether it was from you know, serving
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Speaker 1: their time and injury whatever, whenever they were done, you know,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't really a lot to come back to. There
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Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of options for them, and when you
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Speaker 1: don't really have those options, you're kind of more open
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Speaker 1: to suggestions and possibilities. You know, if you've got nothing
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Speaker 1: to lose, you're going to go for it, you know.
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Speaker 1: So after serving in the army, men were you know,
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Speaker 1: more open to colonizing sie settling in areas of Australia.
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Speaker 1: And see Australia automatically joined the First World War because
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Speaker 1: part of the British Empire, right, it's all connected. So
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Speaker 1: when Britain declared war on Germany, like Australia was automatically
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Speaker 1: in it, like there was no option, no consideration. They
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Speaker 1: were just part of it, you know. So after nineteen sixteen,
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Speaker 1: there's like five thousand in thirty soldiers all in all
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Speaker 1: who take part in the soldier settlement scale. And this
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Speaker 1: is over a period of time. It's not just like
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Speaker 1: five thousand and thirty like all at once. I think
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Speaker 1: it starts off with like two and a half thousand,
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Speaker 1: and then like a bit more, a bit more, and
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Speaker 1: then they dwindle back down like near the end. So
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Speaker 1: veterans were given huge tracks of land or you know,
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Speaker 1: moderate tracks of land, and they mainly farmed the Two
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Speaker 1: Men's stables of whatever society needs. Wheat and sheepe what
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Speaker 1: it's the core of every men's society, like super great,
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Speaker 1: right one woo wool is fabulous. It is so useful,
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Speaker 1: like it's great for everything. And also sheep are delicious,
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Speaker 1: like so you've got options. You also have milk and
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Speaker 1: cheese and all the other options, but you know they're
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Speaker 1: still delicious. Chumps play anyway. By September nineteen twenty, the
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Speaker 1: Australian government begins to run out of land to give
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Speaker 1: to the veterans. I say it runs out of land,
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Speaker 1: runs out of decent land, because areas, as you know,
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Speaker 1: are finite. But it's not just Australian soldiers, right are
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Speaker 1: that are being given this. It's British soldiers too, so
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Speaker 1: like they're both getting this option. So the government starts
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Speaker 1: offering areas that are a bit more remote. And by
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Speaker 1: a bit more remote, I mean by casta nowhere basically,
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Speaker 1: or at least it was at the time. It's now
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Speaker 1: known as Perth. How do you know where the border
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Speaker 1: of Perth is? There's a river like Ay, which I
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Speaker 1: think is like a very reasonable boundary, like if you
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Speaker 1: can use a river as a boundary that makes perfect
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Speaker 1: sense because you see the river. It's a visual boundary,
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Speaker 1: like you can't bugger that up. But anyway, so they're
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Speaker 1: sending them to Perth because they're not going to send
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Speaker 1: them like invalked, because there's there's only so far deep
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Speaker 1: into the center of Australia you can go. Because that's
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Speaker 1: why you notice, like all the outside bits, all the
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Speaker 1: coastal areas are colonized, but like the deeper you get
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Speaker 1: into the bush, like nobody knows what's there. Nobody knows
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Speaker 1: what's in the center of the bush, like we don't know,
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Speaker 1: like like jeez, you know, the Dodo could still exist
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Speaker 1: for all we know, and it's gonna be right in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the bush, like a Dodo in the bush,
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Speaker 1: right right, right, But anyway, they're all being sent to
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Speaker 1: like Western Australia. They're moving out to Perth or sort
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Speaker 1: of settling on the land there and they are changing
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Speaker 1: it away bit because they're making it sort of farm ready,
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Speaker 1: right and they kind of create like a wheat bit olt,
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Speaker 1: which is interestingly enough, what it ends up being reverred
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Speaker 1: to because that is a place now or like a region.
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Speaker 1: It's I mean a region is also a place shut up. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Remember these are soldiers, not farmers. I mean, they might
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Speaker 1: have been farmers before they were soldiers, but the majority
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Speaker 1: of these guys didn't farm. And so like, after this
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Speaker 1: whole scheme is being done, just as Pike ends up
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Speaker 1: being like, yeah, it didn't work as the settlers weren't suitable,
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Speaker 1: which is basically saying other shit of farming, and that's
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Speaker 1: why it didn't work out, as opposed to we didn't
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Speaker 1: teach people how to farm appropriately, and as such it
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Speaker 1: didn't work. Like I mean, there's a bunch of other
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Speaker 1: stuff into it, but like go over it and dig
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Speaker 1: is not really a good basis for teaching somebody how
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Speaker 1: to do anything, unless you want to teach them how
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Speaker 1: to dig. So the farmers are already struggling a wee
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Speaker 1: bit right, and things go from bad to worse because
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Speaker 1: like most of the world, Australia is also affected by
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Speaker 1: the Great Depression, and the wheat prices drop, I mean
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Speaker 1: the sheep prices. Who knows, maybe sheep is fine, but
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Speaker 1: like the wheat prices drop, and so they really need
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Speaker 1: to make sure that all the weat they're growing is decent,
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Speaker 1: that it is going to be bountiful, like they have
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Speaker 1: to try and get more of it, really, and the
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Speaker 1: government is promising these subsidies. You know, you've got to
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Speaker 1: keep growing the wheat, like we need the weight, we
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Speaker 1: need to do this, and the farmers are like, sure,
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Speaker 1: government will do that. So they're mainly growing weight. That's
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Speaker 1: kind of a big issue for them. And then on
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Speaker 1: top of that, they also have a pretty large bird problem.
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Speaker 1: And by that, I mean they have a problem with
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Speaker 1: large birds. Enter the emu. So emu's fun fact are
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Speaker 1: native to Australia and they only occur there naturally. So
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Speaker 1: if you see an emu and it's not in Australia,
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Speaker 1: that shit stolen. Somebody nicked that bud. I mean they
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Speaker 1: may have nicked other birds and then bred those birds
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Speaker 1: in captivity, but naturally only Australia is where EMUs exist. Now,
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Speaker 1: they wear a protected species like for a long time,
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Speaker 1: but as a general rule they're like grand like they're fine,
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Speaker 1: although some of their subspecies are endangered. In addition, several
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Speaker 1: subspecies became extinct due to colonization. So when the settlers
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Speaker 1: sort of showed up, they were just like hunting and
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Speaker 1: destroying habitat and like just all that kind of stuff, right,
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Speaker 1: the typical thing and imus imus, I'm sorry, are kind
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Speaker 1: of scary for me because I don't like animals that
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Speaker 1: are taller than me. I find them terrifying. So these
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Speaker 1: flightless buds, which are omnivores by the way, so they
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Speaker 1: eat not sheep, by the way, they eat wheat, they
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Speaker 1: eat veg, they eat bugs, so like they kind of
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Speaker 1: you know whatever is around no nah nam and they
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Speaker 1: can go weeks without eating, Like, how is this not scary?
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Speaker 1: And it's it's six foot three so like one point
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Speaker 1: nine meals. Like they are taller. They are taller than
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Speaker 1: tall men and this big big motherfuckers right, they're what
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Speaker 1: isn't like the q jackman's like six is he chu
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Speaker 1: jackmin six three? Somebody is six three? They are very tall.
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Speaker 1: They are very tall. They can run very fast, like
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Speaker 1: forty eight kolomos or like their emails per hour like
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Speaker 1: they are they can run. Okay, they can run. They
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Speaker 1: got big beaks. They don't need to eat, and they
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Speaker 1: can go like ages without drinking as well. But then
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Speaker 1: when they do come across like water sources, they're just
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Speaker 1: like but like they don't need to do that. I
19:26
Speaker 1: mean like Kadie and now talking about animals. Listen. I
19:29
Speaker 1: watched Animal Planet and other such nature shows with my
19:32
Speaker 1: brother for like years. He keeps trying to get me
19:35
Speaker 1: to watch fishing shows. But I just I just I
19:39
Speaker 1: just care more about anything else. I'll watch a show
19:42
Speaker 1: about tanks before I watch a show about fishing, Like, ugh,
19:48
Speaker 1: fucking hate tanks. I just find sort of machinery like
19:54
Speaker 1: quite boring to discuss, like when people exist, you know
19:59
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, anyway, so thes are hardily fucks
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Speaker 1: and big scary birdays. Okay, so because the EMUs they were,
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Speaker 1: you know, they were pretty decent. People didn't really bother them.
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Speaker 1: You didn't bother the EMUs. Shit was good. But then
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Speaker 1: they turned into a pest for farmers. Seems they migrate,
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Speaker 1: you know, like most buds do, or did I mention
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Speaker 1: they're flightless, like they run, but they don't fly. I
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Speaker 1: think of a veloss of raptor without the claws, right Anyway,
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Speaker 1: EMUs they migrate because they're buds, and so they would
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Speaker 1: try and get towards the coast, you know, for breeding time.
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Speaker 1: So like I think they could have like several like
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Speaker 1: clutches of eggs pear like mating season, and it's actually
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Speaker 1: the male emu which protects the eggs. So they would
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Speaker 1: like lose a bunch of weight because they would just
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Speaker 1: like not eat because they would just be like, what's
21:07
Speaker 1: the word? What is the word? When you incubate the eggs,
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Speaker 1: it sits on them, keeps them toasty. Anyway, they do
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Speaker 1: that and then the woman gets to go out and
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Speaker 1: the women, the female emu goes out and does what
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Speaker 1: she wants. Anyway, emas they're migrating and the farms are
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Speaker 1: suddenly in their way. Right. Not only is their wheat
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Speaker 1: which is bloody delicious because the budst but like yummy,
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Speaker 1: but they also have like water sources because you know,
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Speaker 1: they've put infrastructure in the area to support these farms. Right,
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Speaker 1: so the birds come down like they got food, they
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Speaker 1: got water, they've got somewhere comfy to lie on, because
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Speaker 1: they'll also like lie on like wheat, they'll flatten it
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Speaker 1: and like ruin it. I like to think they're just
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Speaker 1: like gorging themselves on. They eat and then they just
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Speaker 1: fall over because they're just so full, like you know
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Speaker 1: when you eat too much and you're like I need
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Speaker 1: to lie down, right, now like that's what they're going through,
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Speaker 1: but again not too fuss about the sheep. So the
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Speaker 1: Campian district in the wheat belt in Western Australia is
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Speaker 1: now being overrun by fucking EMUs and by nineteen thirty two,
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Speaker 1: veterans we're losing their shit because they're desperately trying to
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Speaker 1: grow wheat and these massive buds are ruining it between
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Speaker 1: the sleeping and the eating and just general pestiness. Oh
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Speaker 1: and they're also like leaving massive holes in their fences,
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Speaker 1: so other critters are getting in so like rabbits and
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Speaker 1: dingos and other such nonsense. So they're just they're just
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Speaker 1: causing a wee bit of a commotion, to be honest,
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Speaker 1: because it starts off and there's like a couple of buds,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There's a couple of year
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Speaker 1: couple there, and then there's like maybe fifty birds and
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Speaker 1: that's you know, manageable, and maybe there's there's one hundred
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Speaker 1: or a couple hundred over this entire area, and you're like,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, they're just birds. And then and then there's
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand EMUs invading this region. Twenty thousand that is,
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Speaker 1: I believe the technical term is a fuckload of emas,
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Speaker 1: and the veterans are pissed off and they want to
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Speaker 1: get through this cost eleven crisis, and they want to
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Speaker 1: just start like killing EMUs, like let me just let
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Speaker 1: me just get rid of them. And they're you know,
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Speaker 1: they're promised the subsidies from like the government, with these
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Speaker 1: subsidies like for the wheat don't come, so they are
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Speaker 1: stressing the hell out. So they need to deal with
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Speaker 1: this and like, we need to get rid of these EMUs,
24:02
Speaker 1: we need to control this problem. And they're like, we
24:06
Speaker 1: need to kill the muses. I mean maybe they thought
24:08
Speaker 1: they could eat the EMUs, you know, because you can
24:12
Speaker 1: eat emu right like one you know they're eating well
24:17
Speaker 1: because they're eating all you're weak. So that's some quality
24:19
Speaker 1: food right there. So I specifically looked this up earlier
24:23
Speaker 1: because I was like, can you eat emu meat? Like,
24:26
Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes you're like, oh, there's a bird
24:28
Speaker 1: or there's a an animal, but you can't actually eat
24:31
Speaker 1: it because like it doesn't taste nice. The reason why
24:35
Speaker 1: we're not more cannibalistic really is because human flesh doesn't
24:40
Speaker 1: really taste very nice. Like that's why, you know, a
24:46
Speaker 1: lot of larger predators. Like when they do eat humans,
24:49
Speaker 1: they don't really eat all of it because they're like hungry,
24:52
Speaker 1: but then they eat and once you know, like you know,
24:55
Speaker 1: you're really desperate, and you eat some kind of food
24:58
Speaker 1: that you're not really keen on, and you eat it
25:00
Speaker 1: anyway because you're just so bloody hungry, and then as
25:04
Speaker 1: you start to get fill, you're like, I'm not really
25:07
Speaker 1: feeling this, and then you're repulse by it and don't
25:09
Speaker 1: want to eat it. Like that's what like eating humans is, like,
25:11
Speaker 1: I mean eating them in the bad way, not the
25:13
Speaker 1: good way, you know. And so emu meat and I
25:17
Speaker 1: looked this up. Emu meat is an excellent alternative for
25:22
Speaker 1: health conscious consumers who love the taste of beef. Like
25:27
Speaker 1: you know, everything tastes like chicken, part of the emu
25:30
Speaker 1: tastes like beef, so red emu meat is similar in
25:33
Speaker 1: taste and texture to lean beef, but lower in cholesterol,
25:37
Speaker 1: fat in calories, and the name of that meat Like
25:42
Speaker 1: you know, pork comes from a peg, beef comes from
25:44
Speaker 1: a cow. Ratite comes from the emute, and partently the
25:53
Speaker 1: thigh meat is the best. Let me tell you, everyone
25:57
Speaker 1: loves a bit of thigh meat. So these ex soldiers
26:00
Speaker 1: they are just maybe hungry for em you maybe stressing
26:05
Speaker 1: it a wee bit. And they decide that they're going
26:09
Speaker 1: to start like picking up arms and they're going to
26:12
Speaker 1: just kill these EMUs. And so they're doing that, but
26:17
Speaker 1: the EMUs just keep coming, just like a conveyor belt
26:21
Speaker 1: of EMUs. Like you know when you try and leave
26:24
Speaker 1: a conversation and the person just keeps talking and keeps
26:29
Speaker 1: trying to engage you in it, and you're just trying
26:30
Speaker 1: to slowly shuffle out the door. It's like that. It's
26:33
Speaker 1: like that now, the farmals. They end up bringing their
26:37
Speaker 1: concerns to the Minister of Defense, so George Pierce, because
26:41
Speaker 1: they want the essentials buckets and buckets and bullets. I
26:48
Speaker 1: just love I love us actually because they're like, can
26:50
Speaker 1: you give us ammunition? And he's like, how about I
26:54
Speaker 1: give you some soldiers? And they're like sure, I guess
27:00
Speaker 1: that's that's fine. And so they end up sending a
27:06
Speaker 1: bunch of like soldiers over to Western Australia. And they
27:11
Speaker 1: do this for a couple of reasons. One for pr
27:14
Speaker 1: because it looks great because Australia is supporting the struggling
27:18
Speaker 1: veterans outside of hands act day like, oh we're helping them.
27:22
Speaker 1: We are so consider it. And it's like you didn't
27:25
Speaker 1: pay them what you said you were going to pay them,
27:28
Speaker 1: but spinnet guys, I guess. And two, the military thought
27:33
Speaker 1: EMUs would make good target practice for the soldiers because
27:39
Speaker 1: they're like they're six three, they move about their bipods
27:42
Speaker 1: like bipeds, bipods, they got two legs and they run
27:46
Speaker 1: about and they're like, yay, they're going to be like
27:49
Speaker 1: really handy for like shooting. And yeah, the soldiers are
27:54
Speaker 1: sent in by the government who their hand is kind
27:57
Speaker 1: of forced at this point because the farmers had banded
28:01
Speaker 1: together and we're threatening to just not provide any more food.
28:05
Speaker 1: They were like, we're not going to give you the
28:06
Speaker 1: wheat because you're not giving us our subsidies. You're not
28:08
Speaker 1: helping us do shit. These birds are just bad. They're
28:14
Speaker 1: you know, ruining our minds. They're playing rock music like
28:18
Speaker 1: they're just bad guys. Yeah, and so they're like they're
28:22
Speaker 1: fucking things up. You have to do something, and so
28:25
Speaker 1: they're like guns, our problems are solved with guns. So
28:33
Speaker 1: on the second of November nineteen thirty two enter the
28:37
Speaker 1: Australian Army ready to fuck up some EMUs, which seems
28:43
Speaker 1: like at the perfect time to take a break to
28:46
Speaker 1: listen to our sponsors, or if you're in an area
28:50
Speaker 1: which doesn't have our sponsors, a moment of silence for
28:53
Speaker 1: the EMUs. The EMUs. So the soldiers they're being sent
29:01
Speaker 1: it's November, so it's like Australian summer time, and they're
29:06
Speaker 1: led by Major Ruinard purfs Win Aubrey Meredith of the
29:13
Speaker 1: seventh Heavy Battery of the Royal Australian Artillery. I may
29:18
Speaker 1: have pronounced his name wrong, but I wanted to make
29:20
Speaker 1: sure I got all of it in. We're just gonna
29:23
Speaker 1: call him Meredith from here on in. But yeah, they didn't.
29:26
Speaker 1: They didn't fuck around their like we're bringing in all
29:28
Speaker 1: these dudes. So Meredith shows up in the Campian region
29:31
Speaker 1: with his trips, his commanding soldiers, Sergeant mc murray, and
29:38
Speaker 1: his gunner o'haleran, armed with two Lewis guns and ten
29:42
Speaker 1: thousand rounds of ammunition. A Lewis gun is a machine
29:47
Speaker 1: gun that was popularized by the British Army during the
29:50
Speaker 1: First World War. Yes, I did look it up because
29:54
Speaker 1: I didn't know what a Lewis gun was. Listen, I
29:57
Speaker 1: don't I don't know guns, and I don't know h
30:00
Speaker 1: vehicles for the most part. But here I am lick.
30:03
Speaker 1: I went to the effort of looking it up. Okay,
30:05
Speaker 1: I did that for you so that you wouldn't have to,
30:09
Speaker 1: but you can if you want to, because I'm not
30:13
Speaker 1: here to control your life. I'm just here to provide
30:15
Speaker 1: you with some fun history and many smutty dresses. So
30:23
Speaker 1: they go out and they spot fifty buds, but they're
30:29
Speaker 1: a wee bit out of range, and they and the
30:33
Speaker 1: farmers sort of joined them and they heard, well, they
30:38
Speaker 1: try to help the EMUs so that they can create
30:42
Speaker 1: an ambush. In this absolutely backfiles because this freaks the
30:49
Speaker 1: buds out and they scatter. They are running in every
30:53
Speaker 1: which way. They are just going in different directions. It
30:56
Speaker 1: is pure, unadulterated chaos, is like, and some are just
31:03
Speaker 1: out of range. But the gunners are like, We're gonna
31:07
Speaker 1: try and show them anyway. This does not work. The
31:13
Speaker 1: second round does manage to get a number of EMUs
31:18
Speaker 1: because they get like a wee bit closer. Like they
31:20
Speaker 1: do their best right undetered they continue looking round for
31:26
Speaker 1: the birds, and they come across this spring which has
31:31
Speaker 1: another flock, and later in the day and these guys,
31:33
Speaker 1: they're slightly more successful with this attempt. But perhaps and
31:39
Speaker 1: this is this is a direct statement, perhaps a dozen
31:45
Speaker 1: birds are slain, like they think, maybe twelve at this point.
31:52
Speaker 1: Two days later, on November fourth, they come across a
31:55
Speaker 1: thousand EMUs at a watering hole. It's it's not a war,
32:00
Speaker 1: it's a damn waterhole. Just sounded better. So they set
32:04
Speaker 1: themselves up, they get nice and close, make controler within
32:07
Speaker 1: fire and range, and then they let her rip. Her
32:13
Speaker 1: is the bluest gun in this scenario. Twelve birds are hit.
32:19
Speaker 1: A dozen of them fall to the ground in quick succession,
32:23
Speaker 1: and then the gun jams. So the other EMUs like,
32:32
Speaker 1: because you know, they've just loud noises, birds are falling
32:36
Speaker 1: to the ground, They're like shit, no, and just like before,
32:40
Speaker 1: like a thousand ems are just running chaos, and they've
32:48
Speaker 1: hit twelve of them. There's like nine hundred and eighty left,
32:55
Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty EMUs doing that weird bird screen
33:00
Speaker 1: mean thing and just running around like that's that sounds
33:03
Speaker 1: like a fun time. So the troops then move south
33:09
Speaker 1: where the birds are allegedly tamar. They're like, they're gonna
33:14
Speaker 1: be easier if we go down this way, like and
33:20
Speaker 1: if if you're keeping score at this point, everybody we're
33:23
Speaker 1: currently at emu's one Australian Army one. Like the army
33:29
Speaker 1: get the second round because they got twelve like in
33:32
Speaker 1: one goal. They got them right, Like they actually refer
33:38
Speaker 1: to it as limited success, Like that's that's in the report.
33:43
Speaker 1: I love it so much. By day four, they are
33:47
Speaker 1: starting to respect their opponents, like like the Australian Artillery
33:53
Speaker 1: are like you know what, these EMUs they are not
33:57
Speaker 1: as stupid as they are supposed to be. They're like
34:02
Speaker 1: they run in packs, you know, like most animals do,
34:05
Speaker 1: and they have a leader in each pack. Like they
34:07
Speaker 1: actually talk about this. They're so serious. There's a leader
34:10
Speaker 1: on each pack and he keeps watch and warns the
34:14
Speaker 1: flocks of an enemy approaching, allowing them to escape before
34:18
Speaker 1: the army approaches, like like there's a there's a lookout
34:21
Speaker 1: bunked and he's like ah, like warning sign danger, danger,
34:27
Speaker 1: Will Robinson. The gun guys are back, so they're like,
34:32
Speaker 1: well we need to like outsmart these birds they're trying
34:34
Speaker 1: to think of how we're going to do it, and
34:36
Speaker 1: they come up with the idea they're going to maguver
34:39
Speaker 1: like a moving gun, and so they mount one of
34:42
Speaker 1: the machine guns onto a truck, which which clearly they
34:49
Speaker 1: did not think about too hard because they mount a
34:54
Speaker 1: machine gun onto a truck and then try to aim
34:58
Speaker 1: at the moving target. Well, they themselves are moving like
35:03
Speaker 1: over bumpy ter rain. Like it's not it's not the
35:07
Speaker 1: most considered of plans. It is a concept of a plan,
35:15
Speaker 1: so like they're just making it harder for themselves really,
35:17
Speaker 1: So the gunner literally just can't shoot, like he can't
35:22
Speaker 1: aim because he's just and then they think they just
35:26
Speaker 1: start plowing into birds because like they don't know what
35:28
Speaker 1: else to do, Like they can't actually keep up with
35:32
Speaker 1: most of the birds because they're just running faster than
35:34
Speaker 1: the truck can. But the one bird actually like I
35:41
Speaker 1: don't know if it was Cami casion into it, but
35:43
Speaker 1: like it gets hit by the truck and it they
35:49
Speaker 1: gets caught underneath like in the steering equipment, and then
35:54
Speaker 1: the truck ends up just veering off track and plows
35:58
Speaker 1: like right into a farmer's fence like wa Now, the
36:05
Speaker 1: gunners were expecting to just like, you know, just mow
36:11
Speaker 1: down the EMUs. They thought it was going to be easy.
36:14
Speaker 1: That's what they thought it was going to be, like
36:15
Speaker 1: bang bang bang bang. Right. They thought this was going
36:19
Speaker 1: to be a simple affair and that they would just
36:21
Speaker 1: like flock together and not move and they would just
36:23
Speaker 1: be like, you know, easy target practice. But one ornithologist
36:31
Speaker 1: which I was reading, said that the EMUs had adopted
36:35
Speaker 1: gorilla warfare. Now I'm not one to judge someone who
36:44
Speaker 1: was respected and an expert in their field, but I
36:49
Speaker 1: do find it a little bit difficult to consider EMUs
36:54
Speaker 1: conducting gorilla warfare as opposed to just like running and
36:58
Speaker 1: hiding in a panic. Like maybe they're well organized, maybe
37:01
Speaker 1: this is their plan. Maybe we need to get doctor
37:03
Speaker 1: do a little you know, and find out what the
37:04
Speaker 1: EMUs are up to. But I have my suspicions that
37:09
Speaker 1: they're just going and running like fuck. So at this
37:13
Speaker 1: point they managed to call like fifty bods. So again,
37:20
Speaker 1: if you're keeping the tally, EMUs too army one. By
37:25
Speaker 1: the sixth day of this endeavor, the pr isn't pring right.
37:32
Speaker 1: It's gone horribly wrong. Meredith is doing math and he
37:40
Speaker 1: is very aware that he is using two thousand, five
37:45
Speaker 1: hundred bullets to kill like two hundred birds in total,
37:49
Speaker 1: and that's that's lucky. Like a quarter of the AMMO
37:53
Speaker 1: on barely any EMUs, like they don't have enough like
37:56
Speaker 1: AMO to get through this, and so they end up
38:01
Speaker 1: being like pulled from this anyway. And Major Meredith compares
38:07
Speaker 1: emas to zulus I, shit you not, because of course
38:16
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't have the past without it. Like
38:19
Speaker 1: a wee bit of casual racism in there. It's just wild.
38:24
Speaker 1: And one politician ends up like having a discussion in
38:28
Speaker 1: parliament like should the trips involved in the EMU War
38:32
Speaker 1: get a medal? And his opponent, without skipping a fucking beat, goes, yeah,
38:39
Speaker 1: if that's the case, the the EMUs who won should
38:42
Speaker 1: also get medals. And this this, this, this kind of
38:46
Speaker 1: got rid of that idea pretty sharpish, and by November
38:50
Speaker 1: eighth the trips and their guns are pulled out of
38:55
Speaker 1: the Emu War and the farmers there are just distraught
38:59
Speaker 1: at this. They are desperate. It's the Australian summer and
39:03
Speaker 1: the EMUs are going hell for leather on the wheat.
39:07
Speaker 1: They are raiding farms in the thousands, and these reports
39:13
Speaker 1: are coming in to the government along with a report
39:17
Speaker 1: from the base commander. He's like, we got nearly three
39:20
Speaker 1: hundred EMUs. Actually not fifty or two hundred, but three hundred.
39:26
Speaker 1: And this changes everything for some reason, and by the
39:31
Speaker 1: twelfth of November, the government approves to send the troops
39:34
Speaker 1: back in and Pierce goes to the Senate and he
39:38
Speaker 1: is like explaining that the EMUs are like a massive
39:43
Speaker 1: threat to like Australia because they're going through the wheat belt.
39:49
Speaker 1: Oh and he didn't need to justify spending really too
39:51
Speaker 1: much because I forgot to say this earlier. Like they
39:53
Speaker 1: agreed to send the troops in, but on the condition
39:57
Speaker 1: that the farmers the veterans would like feed and house
40:01
Speaker 1: and like care for the soldiers when they were there.
40:05
Speaker 1: So like the government wasn't spending that money. So yeah,
40:11
Speaker 1: the military gives the guns to the Western Australian Government,
40:16
Speaker 1: but the Western Australian Government had to provide their own gunnals.
40:21
Speaker 1: And because there was a lack of experienced gunners in Perth.
40:24
Speaker 1: Who has to come back on the scene. But Meredith,
40:29
Speaker 1: after a couple of days break, he is back out
40:32
Speaker 1: in the field, the wheat field, and by the thirteenth
40:36
Speaker 1: of November, the troops are back at it and they
40:40
Speaker 1: managed to kill forty birds. Three days later, the blessed successful.
40:50
Speaker 1: They get a couple, not many. It's not great. It
40:54
Speaker 1: does not look good for them. And he is like
40:59
Speaker 1: doing his like I said, Meredith likes his numbers, and
41:02
Speaker 1: he realizes that it takes ten bullets to kill one bird.
41:09
Speaker 1: Because by the end of this they have nine hundred
41:13
Speaker 1: and eighty six confirmed kills, which is not a lot
41:22
Speaker 1: when you consider they used eight hundred and sixty rounds
41:25
Speaker 1: of bullets, which seems very round for a number for
41:28
Speaker 1: me a bit because like more died from their injuries obviously,
41:33
Speaker 1: because like I'd say, like two and a half thousand,
41:35
Speaker 1: because he's just throwing numbers at the wall and seeing
41:37
Speaker 1: what sticks. But yeah, it's it's it's a thing. It's
41:41
Speaker 1: like those birds are. They're very strong. They're very bullet resistant,
41:47
Speaker 1: which is I think a good skill to have is
41:49
Speaker 1: any creature. I mean, how they evolve to like not
41:53
Speaker 1: be too bothered by bullets. Great, good for them, good
41:57
Speaker 1: for you, EMUs. So they end up being recalled on
42:04
Speaker 1: the tenth of Dezemba, and there's all this criticism, like
42:09
Speaker 1: they used machine guns and they're like why did they
42:13
Speaker 1: have to use it on the birds? And they're just
42:15
Speaker 1: like it saved what was left of the wheat, which
42:20
Speaker 1: does not make me optimistic in any sense of the words.
42:24
Speaker 1: And like people are just going like, well into sort
42:27
Speaker 1: of I'm gonna say EMU praise, Like they're really into
42:32
Speaker 1: EMUs at this point, Like one guy says that if
42:37
Speaker 1: they had a military division, they could face any army
42:44
Speaker 1: because they were basically invulnerable to bullets. Like the terminator,
42:49
Speaker 1: they're just like coming at you, like if you could
42:52
Speaker 1: weaponize an EMU, like you've just got I mean, it's
42:56
Speaker 1: a terrifying killing machine if you weaponize an EMU, but
43:01
Speaker 1: you know, super strong, really hard to shoot, very important.
43:07
Speaker 1: And like every couple of years, the farmers come back
43:09
Speaker 1: to the government, are our requesting assistance, so like, please
43:13
Speaker 1: help me more, and the government keeps saying no, they
43:16
Speaker 1: keep rejecting them. At one point, the veterans request bombs,
43:22
Speaker 1: so like, can we just blow the shit up, right?
43:26
Speaker 1: Can we just blow the EMUs to smitherins? Can we
43:29
Speaker 1: explode them? Is that a feasible option? Here? And the
43:32
Speaker 1: government's like, what, No, you cannot explode the EMUs. Do
43:38
Speaker 1: not explode the EMUs. Like no, you shouldn't have to
43:42
Speaker 1: have that as a warning label, but don't don't explode
43:45
Speaker 1: the EMUs. And they're like, no, we're not going to
43:49
Speaker 1: do this. We're not going to send in the army.
43:51
Speaker 1: We're not going to send you in machine guns, Lewis guns,
43:54
Speaker 1: We're not going to send you in the shit because bullets.
43:59
Speaker 1: Bullets are pensive and I don't know, weird feeling might
44:03
Speaker 1: be another war around the corner. Hoom's to say. Now,
44:10
Speaker 1: what they do bring in is they bring in a
44:12
Speaker 1: bounty hunting provision because like, on top of the fact
44:15
Speaker 1: the emu meat is partly really good for you and
44:19
Speaker 1: allegedly delicious, the emu feathers were actually used for some
44:25
Speaker 1: kind of army hat if I'm not mistaken, Like they
44:29
Speaker 1: really used that specific brown plumage of all the plumage
44:33
Speaker 1: in the world, but that's what they like. I think Also,
44:36
Speaker 1: the Australian Army did not want to have to face
44:39
Speaker 1: the EMUs again. There's probably somebody there with a weird
44:41
Speaker 1: form of like PTSD who just sees buds in his
44:45
Speaker 1: sleep like he can't walk past the pigeons because he
44:48
Speaker 1: just starts getting like nam flashbacks. He's like no, no, no, no,
44:51
Speaker 1: no no, can't we deal them with that? So, yeah,
44:54
Speaker 1: the army doesn't go back. They do not send the back.
44:57
Speaker 1: They don't send them their shit, but they do sort
45:00
Speaker 1: of allow bounty hunting of EMUs, which turns out to
45:03
Speaker 1: be far more successful and over a period of six
45:09
Speaker 1: months in nineteen thirty four fifty seven thousand and thirty four,
45:16
Speaker 1: EMUs are like their bounty is claimed, But how how
45:24
Speaker 1: one and not the other? You know what, I understand
45:26
Speaker 1: that hunters and soldiers are different, but also maybe don't
45:31
Speaker 1: use a machine gun a sniper, I said, I was
45:34
Speaker 1: thinking of earlier, like why not just have a sniper
45:37
Speaker 1: with a decent scope? Right, I feel like they had
45:39
Speaker 1: that back then. So if you get a sniper, they
45:42
Speaker 1: could just think would that might be the more logical
45:46
Speaker 1: option to get the emused. Listen, I'm not going to
45:51
Speaker 1: tell you how to murder giant buds. I'm just saying
45:55
Speaker 1: it feels like that should have been concerned. So, yeah,
46:01
Speaker 1: you've got the bounty hunters, You've got like better fences,
46:07
Speaker 1: like that's one thing they did. They built better fences,
46:11
Speaker 1: and there was talk of like maybe going back into
46:14
Speaker 1: war with the EMUs. But listen, they've already defeated you twice.
46:18
Speaker 1: You don't want to go into that again because third
46:20
Speaker 1: time is the charm. By the time, the Australian Army
46:25
Speaker 1: fought the EMUs and the EMUs won, so like by
46:30
Speaker 1: the time all this goes down, like a bunch of
46:33
Speaker 1: farmers just say fuck this for game of soldiers and
46:36
Speaker 1: off they go. They just like leave, and by by
46:40
Speaker 1: the end of this scheme, like there was like over
46:43
Speaker 1: five thousand and there's about two thousand left by the
46:48
Speaker 1: time this is all done because they're like, ay, it's fine,
46:51
Speaker 1: I'll make it work. But yes, so end the story
46:55
Speaker 1: of the Australian ema War. If you liked my were
46:59
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47:01
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47:14
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47:20
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47:25
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Speaker 1: And for lessening, I've actually been listening to the Red
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Speaker 1: Handed podcast. I've found it very very soothing. They have
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Speaker 1: very soothing voices, and it helps me rest, like I
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Speaker 1: wish I could have that soothing a voice like hmm,
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Speaker 1: I fall asleep listening to you cool, no worries, love
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Speaker 1: that journey for you. But yeah, I find them really
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Speaker 1: really soothing and really relaxing, even though they're talking about
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Speaker 1: really horrible stuff. But yeah, Red Handed, that's my current
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Speaker 1: audio obsersion helps me rest Oh but if you hear
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Speaker 1: get Me, Get Me by Rachel Zegler, like her version
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Speaker 1: of it, like she does this thing Ephrodeity, don't forget me, Romeo,
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Speaker 1: enjoy at Me and it's amazing and it scratches like
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Speaker 1: a good part in the back of my brain and
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Speaker 1: I love her so much. So, Yeah, listen to that.
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Speaker 1: That's vibe and we thought, I'm gonna bet you a
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Speaker 1: good nights. My voice is about to go. Adios au
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Speaker 1: revoir of Whidas My friends, Bye bye,