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Jasper Harvey: Reindeer. Beautiful Animals But I Would Have Been Eating Them · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Season four of A Lone Australia has moved to quite
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  Speaker 1: frankly a more challenging befitting of the show setting than Tasmania.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the Arctic Circle and Jasper Harvey, who already
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  Speaker 1: lives off grid in a modified bus, is representing w
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  Speaker 1: A good morning, Jasper, morning, Jasper.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, thank you for having me, thank.
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  Speaker 1: You for joining us. Now was camping on the very
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  Speaker 1: edge of the Arctic Circle? Ever really on your BINGO card?
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  Speaker 2: Well travel wise, my like two plans and I ticked
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  Speaker 2: one of them off. Now is visiting the Tiger so
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  Speaker 2: that the boreal forest on the top of the world,
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  Speaker 2: which Finland has that, So the Tiger, yeah, and the
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  Speaker 2: Amazon so it was actually on the to do list.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good, that's one of them off. That's one of
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  Speaker 3: them ticked off. So now, Jasper, you're a permaculture practitioner.
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  Speaker 3: For those who don't know, explained briefly what that is.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a kind of like holistically living in a
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  Speaker 2: way that is healthy for the planet and your community
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  Speaker 2: as best you can. Basically so has social parts to it,
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  Speaker 2: a heavy emphasis on like animal and animal systems and
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  Speaker 2: gardening and being hyper local as well. So trying to
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  Speaker 2: and trade within your community as much as you can.
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  Speaker 3: So that kind of living minimally certainly would be an
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  Speaker 3: advantage for a loan.
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  Speaker 2: Massively, really really good skill set, super applicable.
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  Speaker 1: What was I was so jealous? Pretty much. One of
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  Speaker 1: the first things that happened to you was an encounter
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  Speaker 1: with reindeer and the baby reindeer. Were you just thinking,
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  Speaker 1: what is happening here? This is amazing?
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  Speaker 2: It was just a state of like awe and wonder. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was just such beautiful, peaceful animals and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: actually like a feeling of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Ye seen him on a Christmas card, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: there's this little white one who's so cute. Yeah, you've
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  Speaker 1: got great shots. And the thing is that, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you anyone that watches the show realizes, but you have
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  Speaker 1: to lug around a heap of recording equipment and do
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  Speaker 1: a crash course to become a cinematographer before you go
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  Speaker 1: in that that's got to be a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot, and I think that's something that people
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  Speaker 2: don't quite get about the shows. It's actually a bit
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  Speaker 2: harder than survival because you're filming. Yes, there's all these
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  Speaker 2: rules that you can't break as well, if it's a
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  Speaker 2: shipwreck situation, you don't do or do whatever you like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get where you can redier beautiful animals, but
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  Speaker 2: I would have been eaten. There's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: rules and the filming part as well there very very
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  Speaker 2: challenging the scenery.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually always amazed at how good you all are
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  Speaker 1: at knowing one thing from another when you are foraging, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh this this one, I can eat this one, stay away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think well the permaculture helped a lot with that,
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  Speaker 2: and I did a lot study before going out and
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  Speaker 2: compared to Australia, like we live in an incredible biodiversity
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  Speaker 2: in especially in Western Australia, in the Southwest region I
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  Speaker 2: live is biodiversity hotspot. It's incredible. And Finland's there's not
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  Speaker 2: many species. It's actually quite a lot simpler. Many in
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  Speaker 2: the understory are on the two species of tree on
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  Speaker 2: my land. Oh wow, except more ones. So I could
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  Speaker 2: learn a lot and get really prepared.
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  Speaker 3: Right, you're the youngest competitor this year, one of three
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  Speaker 3: West Aussies, by the way, So did you find being
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  Speaker 3: the youngest an advantage or a disadvantage? You know when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to experience and decision making.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me it wasn't like a big
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  Speaker 2: factor or didn't come into my mind very often. I
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  Speaker 2: think what's most important is did I feel ready? And
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  Speaker 2: I felt ready going out there, like I had the
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  Speaker 2: skills to give it a really good crack. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a little bit to go with, like weighing up
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  Speaker 2: if I was thirty, I would be have more experience
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  Speaker 2: at that point or forty. And you have a slow
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  Speaker 2: metabolism when you're older as well, which is quite significant.
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  Speaker 3: Talking to a couple of practitioners, it slower metabolism right here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is there ever a moment where you know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see you sort of maybe think, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I've made a huge mistake coming here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, to borrow from another show, Was there ever a
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  Speaker 3: moment you said get me out of here? Well, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had a pretty good mindset of I really went
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  Speaker 2: in there with I've got this opportunity in front of me.
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  Speaker 2: I want to I want to get as much out
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  Speaker 2: of as I possibly can. And I really went in there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to test myself. I'm going to see how
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  Speaker 2: far I can go. So that was quite a helpful
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  Speaker 2: mindset for because if you start, if you start getting
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  Speaker 2: that grass as greener mindset, it just it's that's that's
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  Speaker 2: really going to ruin your day sort of thing. So
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  Speaker 2: you've got to stay away from that.
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  Speaker 1: I think the thing that I was sort of most
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I love Tasmania and everything, but the thing
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  Speaker 1: that I was so disappointed about the first couple of
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  Speaker 1: a load Australia's was the most you know, sort of
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  Speaker 1: dangerous animal they were going to come in contact with,
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  Speaker 1: was a paddy melon or whatever. For the mole wallabie thing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what have we got in the Arctic circle that you
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  Speaker 1: could come up against their bears?
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  Speaker 2: Brown bears? Yes, yes, yeah, okay to me, it was
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  Speaker 2: actually very exciting. I'm sure getting to see any of
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  Speaker 2: those animals is just an amazing opportunity. Yeah, actually dangerous, yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: real cranky.
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  Speaker 3: Yes absolutely when you were up there. Now, you're a
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  Speaker 3: man who permaculture and you you you you sort of
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  Speaker 3: live more simply than probably the two people sitting here.
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  Speaker 3: Was there anything that you absolutely craved that you went,
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait until I get out of here and
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  Speaker 3: I get back to this.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know why. It was the food it.
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  Speaker 2: Burgers did as well, but sausages, sausages, service stations. I
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  Speaker 2: just had like dreams of burgers and sausages and just cheap,
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  Speaker 2: oily terrible meat. Just the energetic density I gain. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was brutal. Actually, you have these dreams of you know, banquets,
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  Speaker 2: and then you wake up to your shelter and your
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  Speaker 2: berries and smoked mushrooms.
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  Speaker 3: And cranky mood and mood.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so in summary food, In summary, what was harder
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  Speaker 1: the cold, the hunger, or the loneliness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tricky question to answer that because it's
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  Speaker 2: quite holistically challenging. Yeah, it's like, if you get sick,
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  Speaker 2: you want more support, You want more friends and family
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  Speaker 2: around when you're sick, you know, like someone to take
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  Speaker 2: care of you. So you've got the physical struggles, but
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  Speaker 2: that that plays on your mind and emotions as well,
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  Speaker 2: and it all just it's just one big thing that's challenging.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think the probably the physical stuff more than the
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  Speaker 2: mental emotional stuff for me, because I'm quite comfortable by
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  Speaker 2: myself and quite comfortable. Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, well, yeah it continues. We we look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing where it goes. Thank you for joining us, Jasper.
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  Speaker 2: It was a nice chatting to you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks thanks Jasper, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.
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  Speaker 3: Alone Australia Season four, Wednesday, seven thirty on SBS and
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  Speaker 3: SBS on demand