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Speaker 1: Fits in with that. The Shark Week kicking off Thursday

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Speaker 1: twenty sixth in November on Discovery. This man we'll be

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Speaker 1: involved with Shark Week from New Zealand also married to

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Speaker 1: their Prime Minister. Over there, just sinder a dourn It.

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Speaker 2: Is Clark Gayford. Welcome, good look body, nice to nice

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Speaker 2: to be here.

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Speaker 3: So how does it go when your wife is doing

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Speaker 3: important international work? Sorry, Fance, I know your own engage. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: jump the gun. So she might wake up in the

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Speaker 3: morning and you have a bit of breakfast and she'll say,

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Speaker 3: got the bloody G seven? Got that on this afternoon?

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Speaker 4: You knew?

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Speaker 3: Go well, I'm just heading down to a bit of

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Speaker 3: spear fishing, see you for dinner. Is that sort of

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Speaker 3: the normal stay to day for you guys?

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Speaker 2: That Actually we went through that on Saturday.

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Speaker 5: She had the she's doing the Southeast Asia conference right

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Speaker 5: where she was to interviews from twelve at midnight through

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Speaker 5: to three in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I got up and two and a half hours later

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Speaker 2: and snack off. Working this week.

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Speaker 1: That's the big thing that I want to know about now.

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Speaker 1: Has shark habits changed now that we haven't been in

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Speaker 1: the water as much this year?

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Speaker 5: One of the things that COVID has given us is

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Speaker 5: this sort of unique opportunity to experience things in the

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Speaker 5: ways that we haven't before. And particularly here in New Zealand,

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Speaker 5: when we had boats off the water, there was lots

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Speaker 5: of anecdotes of we saw big fish stores coming a

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Speaker 5: lot closer to land. We heard big sharks sort of

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Speaker 5: cruising around boats and other behavior. I mean, sound travels

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Speaker 5: so much further underwater and a fish sort of you know,

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Speaker 5: have generally been put off. Perhaps maybe this has been

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Speaker 5: sort of an example of them coming back to land.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting? And I know that you have studied

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Speaker 3: them and you love the fact that you can get

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Speaker 3: into the water and try and understand them.

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Speaker 4: One show that.

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Speaker 3: If I's talking about is this Octopus show on Netflix,

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Speaker 3: and it's amazing this guy creates a relationship with an octopus.

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Speaker 3: But when you look at it, Clark and people trying

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Speaker 3: to understand sharks, do you have that fear of them

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Speaker 3: or is it the fascination that you're driven by?

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a healthy respect for them, certainly when I

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Speaker 5: come across them occasionally. Look, I'm very passionate spear fisher

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Speaker 5: and you, I mean, you're in their environments and you

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Speaker 5: are ringing the dinner bell by shoting fish that you

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Speaker 5: want to take home for the table, and occasionally they

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Speaker 5: turn up and say, excuse me, this is I will

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Speaker 5: be taking.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating I think the fascination with sharks as well, Clark,

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Speaker 1: the bigger the better for anybody out there, especially when

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Speaker 1: you're kicking off Shark Week. Can you please tell it?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell everyone about seven four seven?

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Speaker 5: Seven four seven is a is a great white that

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Speaker 5: has grown in reputation and physically in size over the

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Speaker 5: years and hasn't actually been seen for some time. Down

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Speaker 5: and down off the bottom of New Zealand, we have

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Speaker 5: a very rare great.

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Speaker 2: White aggregation site.

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Speaker 5: There's only a few of these in the world, and

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Speaker 5: there is one shark down there that has been spotted

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Speaker 5: over a period of a decade. Great whites are quite

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Speaker 5: long living and long lasting. And this thing just got

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Speaker 5: bigger and bigger. And the seven name comes from it's dorsal,

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Speaker 5: said to be the size of a seven four seven?

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Speaker 5: How long are we talking?

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Speaker 1: How long are the distance of the shark? How long

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Speaker 1: are we talking here?

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Speaker 4: Clark?

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Speaker 2: They start getting we.

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Speaker 5: Start considering them big from four meters plus because You've

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Speaker 5: got to remember.

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Speaker 2: A great white it's not like other sharks.

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Speaker 5: It's a girthy, fat, grunty beast of a shark, and

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Speaker 5: he's got a huge, big stomach that's white. It's often

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Speaker 5: the first thing that you see when it's coming.

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Speaker 2: Out of the mert towards you.

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Speaker 5: But then then once they get over that four meter mark,

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Speaker 5: that's when they get into the truly big.

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Speaker 2: They seem to turn into almost this entirely different beast.

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Speaker 5: And then when you start talking five six meters six

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Speaker 5: meters plus, it's just it's you know, it does your

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Speaker 5: head into even a man I meant.

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Speaker 2: Is out there the power.

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Speaker 1: You must be pretty proud of yourself. Jacinta is she

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Speaker 1: is one of the most popular leaders in the world

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Speaker 1: and she's picked a bloke like yourself. Can you I

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Speaker 1: know this is probably getting a little bit personal, but

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Speaker 1: how did you guys meet? How long ago? And how

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Speaker 1: did it all come about?

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Speaker 5: That sentence in question took in a different turn. I thought,

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Speaker 5: you're about to.

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Speaker 4: I get it for three hours every day on this show.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry about that park.

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Speaker 5: And well you'd be right. So we actually met. This

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Speaker 5: is slightly embarrassing. I had a constituency issue, and I emailed.

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Speaker 2: My locally really and I got I got some really

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Speaker 2: good advice. Wow, it's like the old school slide into

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Speaker 2: your d.

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Speaker 4: I want to help you out if you're going to

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Speaker 4: have to marry me first. Wow, when was the moment

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Speaker 4: that you had a conversation. Do you remember the conversation

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Speaker 4: where it became a realistic possibility that just said it

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Speaker 4: was going to become prime minister.

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Speaker 2: I was, this is funny enough.

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Speaker 5: I was in Australia when she became a leader of

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Speaker 5: the Labor Party and weirdly, I was actually because it

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Speaker 5: was all kicking off things and started to go really

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Speaker 5: bad back home for the Labor Party.

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Speaker 2: I was filming in Australia. I was off the Lula Bar.

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Speaker 5: I was diving a war wreck and as I was

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Speaker 5: about to go down underwater, I just turned my phone

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Speaker 5: off and I went, I don't want to know about this.

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Speaker 5: And then when I came back up, there was a

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Speaker 5: guy in the boat said, yeah, mate, you might want

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Speaker 5: to call home.

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Speaker 2: Your missus has had a promotion.

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Speaker 5: And it was from that moment forward that that life

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Speaker 5: did start to take a swift and sudden turn.

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Speaker 2: That was like seven weeks before our election.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, what a story.

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Speaker 4: I love you well.

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Speaker 1: You know you guys are welcome to come over anytime.

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Speaker 1: We love you, guys. She's doing a great job, Klark,

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Speaker 1: You're doing a great job as well. When Shark, we're

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Speaker 1: really excited about this. Thursday twenty sixth and November. It

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Speaker 1: kicks off on Discovery and you can you can catch

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Speaker 1: Clark on there looking for seven full seven. I love this,

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Speaker 1: you get success, Clark? Should we get excited about this?

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Speaker 2: On you guys working radio?

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Speaker 5: This is where you just say, hey, look well we'll

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Speaker 5: be back right after the breaking.

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Speaker 4: We'll wait and see.

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Speaker 3: We'll have to watch to see Clark.

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Speaker 4: Thanks mate, thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait any time problem.

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Speaker 4: Thanks you buddy, Bye bye. Fits in with her never