1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Slippery Slope, a true crime podcast about maunt iSER and 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: the Missing water Slide. 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: With Dave O'Neill and Brad Oaks. 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 3: Hello and welcome to our podcast Slippery Slope from Dave O'Neill. 5 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: And it's Brad Oaks. 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 3: Yes, now this is the second episode. If you haven't 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 3: listened to the first one, we'll just recap it very quickly. 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 3: We went to Mount Isaac. 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: We're doing some shows up in northern Glenday. 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 3: We're comedians. If you don't know, we're not journalists, so 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 3: you can stop all the feedback saying we've had no feedback, 12 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 3: but anyway, we're not We're not hardcore journalists. We're comedians. 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 3: But we discovered a pretty amazing story. 14 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 2: We thought this town needed a water slide, but. 15 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 3: Did it get it? What happened There was a bit 16 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: of an incident. There were a few incidents. It's a 17 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 3: pretty incredible story, we thought, with international ramifications. Even though 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: we're talking about maunt iSER, which is the middle of Queensland, 19 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 3: in the middle of nowhere, this story went around the world. 20 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 4: As I said in the end of the last episode, 21 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 4: you don't just go to Clark Rubber and buy a 22 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:09,279 Speaker 4: massive water slide. 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: No, you have to look elsewhere. 24 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 3: Now, Brad. Water slides they seem to be a particularly 25 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 3: Australian thing. I know they're not, but we sort of 26 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 3: owned them, and particularly Queensland is my memory, because we're 27 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 3: Melbourne guys. Now, we didn't have water slides at our 28 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 3: pools and we were growing up, did. 29 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 4: We No, But a lot of us in Melbourne live 30 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 4: very close to the coast. 31 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 2: Yes, so we went to the beach. 32 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 3: Yes, there were no water slides there, No. 33 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: And you know you'd either jump off the pier or. 34 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 3: You serve boogie board. 35 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 2: Yeah. 36 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 4: I don't think even when I was a kid, I 37 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 4: didn't really notice that. I felt like that they started 38 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 4: to hit in the late seventies early eighties, Yeah. 39 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 3: And it was mainly Queensland. So I remember going up 40 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 3: to queens in nineteen eighty. Dad drove us up there 41 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 3: in his Earth and me and my twin brother Glen 42 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 3: were in the back. We went to Noosa and on 43 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 3: the way we stopped at a water slide, which might 44 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 3: have been the sun Shoin coast of the Gold Coaster 45 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 3: was one of them. And I was on the side 46 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 3: of a hill like a squiggly worm like obviously a 47 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 3: couple of dads had made it. Was it embedded, Yes, 48 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 3: it was embedded into the ground and occasionally the story 49 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 3: would come through of the kid flying off into the grass. 50 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 3: And that was my first memory of a water slide. 51 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: Although my first memory of water slide was actually Geelong. 52 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: They still have a water slide park. 53 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: You know. 54 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 4: I haven't looked it up to see when they first 55 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 4: got it, but it was when Geelong started pretending that 56 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 4: they were Queensland. 57 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 2: Yes, well they had to do something they did. 58 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 4: You know, it's positioned perfectly because you come up to freeway, 59 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 4: you see it. Parents must have to distract their children 60 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 4: because you just want to go when. 61 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 2: I go on the waters. 62 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not there anymore. I think they closed that down, 63 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. But Queensland and their relationship with water slides, 64 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 3: because there's a hotter climate, it's warmer up there. They 65 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 3: get a lot of holiday makers from down South Townsvill's 66 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 3: got one. They're all over the shop. 67 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 4: I suppose it's amusement moving parts. Either it's not. 68 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 3: Like a ride, you know, or a chair roller coaster. 69 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 4: Roller coaster was you know the river Caves or something 70 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 4: like that. It's basically you erect it and bolted together, 71 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 4: and you know, just every now and then you get 72 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 4: rid of a body. 73 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 2: But anyway, more getting rid of bodies. 74 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 3: Let's talk to someone who knows more about us than this. 75 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 3: Andrew pots is at a Gold Coast Journals. Here's the 76 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 3: assistant chief of staff for the Gold Coast Bulletin. 77 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 5: How are you? 78 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're both good. Now, how long have you lived 79 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 3: in Queensland? 80 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 6: For? 81 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 3: Andrew in the area. 82 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 7: For my entire life actually, so I was born on 83 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 7: the Gold Coast in nineteen eighty seven, so it's been 84 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 7: a while. 85 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: What's your first memories of water slides in Queensland? 86 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 5: Well, I mean there were always around. 87 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 7: Of course we're the perfect place for it with the 88 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 7: weather and everything, but probably going past the theme parks 89 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 7: that we have here. When I was a little kid, 90 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 7: so the early nineteen nineties, you'd always see advertised on 91 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 7: TV big slides that they had at Wet and Wild, 92 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 7: at the SeaWorld and dream World. 93 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 3: What's your knowledge of the history. Sure, your parents used 94 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 3: to talk about it. You're a journalist. Where was the 95 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 3: first water slide on the Goldie? 96 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 7: The first major water thing we had was probably Caid's 97 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 7: County water Park, which today is known as Wet and Wild. 98 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 7: So that opened in late nineteen eighty four. Of course 99 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 7: there was already some small water parks and water features, 100 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 7: but that was the first really major one that was 101 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 7: entirely based around water slides. That's up at Oxenford. It's 102 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 7: next to what's now Movie World. 103 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. 104 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 7: Then subsequently been ones at SeaWorld and then later at 105 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 7: dream World. So it's one of those things that the 106 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 7: gol you might say, has quite the addiction to water slides. 107 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: Are there any waterfalls around that area? 108 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 3: Waterfalls? 109 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, because I had this theory that the water slide 110 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 4: was somebody standing at the top of a waterfall and 111 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 4: then they slipped and they fell down, and somebody said 112 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 4: that looks fantastic. 113 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 5: Right, Yes there are. 114 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 7: Yeah, if you go up to curumbin Valley, there's a 115 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 7: thing called the Crumb and Rock Pools and that's got 116 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 7: some waterfalls there and little rapids that go into the 117 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 7: main body of water. 118 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: It could be right. 119 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 3: I remember Grundies now that that was eighties, wasn't it 120 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 3: that had the water slide? 121 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 5: It certainly did. Yeah. Grundies is actually a really good example. 122 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,239 Speaker 7: So the brainchild of TV producer Reg Grundy, who later 123 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 7: went on to produce Neighbors, among many other things. But 124 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 7: he decided in the eighties that he wanted to open 125 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 7: a theme park on the Gold Coast. But unlike the 126 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 7: ones that we have today, this was almost entirely indoors, 127 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 7: with one exception water slides. So if you look at 128 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 7: the Service Paradise beachfront where the Cavil Mall is today, 129 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 7: you know there's a famous Service Paradise sign. 130 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 5: That wasn't there yet. 131 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 7: So huge three four story tall floods which they called 132 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 7: the flumes. 133 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 3: Oh right, I remember that. Now this is the one. 134 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 3: Now I thought this was an urban meath Brad remember 135 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 3: the story someone put a razor blade in the water 136 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 3: slide and kids got injured? Did that actually happen there? 137 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 7: Well, that was actually the thing. It was always widely 138 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 7: understood as an urban legend. However, I've met numerous people 139 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 7: over the years who worked at Grundies in the early 140 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 7: eighties and they swear up and down it happened, and 141 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 7: it happened there. The rumor was that they were a 142 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 7: couple of lazor blades were stuck with I think chewing 143 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 7: gum into some of the rivets coming down that slide. 144 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 7: But I've never I've never been able. I've never found 145 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 7: anyone that actually says it happened to them. 146 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 3: Wrong with people they went around when we were kid, 147 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: I just assumed it was. 148 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 4: I believed too that somebody ramly scissors A movie world. 149 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 3: Yeah happened as well. 150 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 5: I've never heard that one really. 151 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 3: Dream world had the Blue Lagoon? Is it still there? 152 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 7: It closed in about two thousand and six when they 153 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 7: opened White Water World. But if I'm not mistaken, the 154 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 7: physical remains of the Blue Lagoon are still at the 155 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 7: back of the park, but they've been closed and inaccessible 156 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 7: for years. 157 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: It would make a great episode of Scooby Doo. 158 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 3: Yes, I've gotten away with of these damn kids. Now, 159 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 3: how much do you reckon? It's part of the tourist 160 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 3: attraction of the Gold Coast and just in Queensland in general, 161 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 3: that is the phenomenon of water slides and theme parks. 162 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 3: It must be a huge bonus, is it? 163 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 5: Very much so? 164 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 7: I mean theme parks of course are a massive part 165 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 7: of our economy, going back to the nineteen sixties and 166 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 7: nineteen seventy, so back then we had a chairlift. Actually 167 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 7: that went up the Miami Hill and then that later 168 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 7: became Magic Mountain theme Park. 169 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: Ah, yes, yes. 170 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 7: Which was a massive deal in the nineteen eighties particularly, 171 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 7: And here's a little fun factoid for you. So their 172 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 7: mascot with a character called Raymondo Rabbit. I actually own 173 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 7: one of the two Raymondo Rabbit suits. 174 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 2: Wow, are you trying to get that other one? 175 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 5: I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened 176 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 5: to that one. 177 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 7: So I've got the suit and I picked it up 178 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 7: a couple of years ago for one hundred bucks on 179 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 7: Facebook Marketplace. And I've had people ask if I perhaps 180 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 7: wanted to part with it, but no, it's the collection. 181 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fantastic, sir. You like an amateur story and 182 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 3: this is great. My memory of the first theme park 183 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 3: I went to in Queensad was SeaWorld. 184 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 2: That was it. 185 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 7: It was, Yeah, So that was founded by a guy 186 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 7: called Keith Williams who had founded a thing called the 187 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 7: Ski Gardens out in Krara on the Nerang River, and 188 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 7: he then I think it's nineteen seventy four, relocated to 189 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 7: the now SeaWorld site and then yeah, he installed a 190 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 7: bunch of slides there. 191 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 5: The dolphins and it sort of just grew from there. 192 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 5: I don't know if you remember this. 193 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 7: But back in about nineteen ninety they had the Cast 194 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 7: of Neighbors come up to the Gold Coast from Erinsborough 195 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 7: and visit SeaWorld for reasons I don't remember at this point, 196 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 7: and there's lots of loving shots of the cast going 197 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 7: down the slides. It was used as quite a big 198 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 7: marketing tool for the Gold Coast, both for I suppose 199 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 7: people around Australia and for the UK audience as. 200 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 3: A general Queensland resident and journo. Have you noticed in 201 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 3: the last say ten to fifteen years, not just the 202 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 3: Gold Coast have gone onto water slides. There seems to 203 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 3: be a lot of water slides because we're talking about 204 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 3: Mount iSER. Have you noticed that I have? 205 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, yeah. 206 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 7: I think it's probably something to do with it's a 207 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 7: cheaper thing to build these days than it was back 208 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 7: in the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. I mean even 209 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 7: caravan parks these days often have them. Yeah, that used 210 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 7: to be quite unusual. Some of these parks have like 211 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 7: really intricate structures, so it's pretty cool. 212 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 4: I was talking about this with Dave is there one 213 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 4: that's embedded into the mountain. 214 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 3: There used to be one in the mountain in the 215 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 3: Sunshine Coast. I reckon it was like a swirly like 216 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 3: a snake on the side of a mountain as you 217 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 3: drove along the namboor yeahah. 218 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 7: I know, I know the one you're talking about. I 219 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 7: don't remember the name of it. I remember going up 220 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 7: to the Sunny Coast when I was a kid and 221 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 7: they'd advertise it on TV and you'd see the people 222 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 7: going down it, and I was always really jealous. 223 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 5: Because I always sort of looked really really cool. 224 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 3: Andrew, thanks for talking to us. That's fantastic, no problem 225 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 3: at all. How it help Andrew pots that year. He 226 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 3: knew his stuffed didn't. 227 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 4: He sure did. I bet that's very exciting at parties too. 228 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 8: Well. 229 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: He knows a lot about water slides, that's fantastic. 230 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 3: But he knows a lot about just Queensland history in general, 231 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 3: and not just the academic stuff. He knows the kitchies stuff, 232 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 3: which I love. You know, who started SeaWorld all that 233 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 3: kind of. 234 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 4: Stuff, And unlike us, because he's a journalist, that would 235 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 4: have all been fact checked. 236 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 3: Yes, he's succinct. Yeah, so man iSER water slides. Queensland 237 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 3: seems to be all fine, But Brad, you can't open 238 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 3: up something that a nearby town has already got, or 239 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 3: can you? Because an hour down the road from maun 240 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 3: iSER is a place called klon Curry. It's not as 241 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 3: big as Mount iSER yep, but they do have a 242 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 3: water slide. 243 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 2: Size is relevant. 244 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 3: Well, let's hear from Daniel Slay, the former mayor of 245 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 3: Mount iSER. Yeah, they get a bit obsessed by clon Curry. 246 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 6: Clon Curry has the great water sligne, but it suits 247 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 6: their population, which is four thousand people and it's quite small. 248 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 6: So that was what was being suggested to us as 249 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 6: a one million dollar water slide. So I knew that 250 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 6: we need to go bigger, bigger better. We needed all 251 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 6: these communities that are all around Manizer, and we are 252 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 6: the hub for the whole north West Stripe. There's nothing 253 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 6: for nine hundred k's away, so we need a reason 254 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 6: for them to come and use their water slide. Because 255 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 6: if we've got the same size water slide as klon Curry, 256 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 6: just go to klan Curry and use their water slide. 257 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 6: But we've got twenty thousand people, so we need something 258 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 6: bigger and better. 259 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 3: Well, we all want something bigger and better, don't we. 260 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 2: Brad, We're sure. Remember there was a push many many 261 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 2: years ago. 262 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 4: If you don't know about the fairy penguins in Philham Island, 263 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 4: it's a ninety one hundred minute drive down to see. 264 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 3: The massive tourist attraction. 265 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, but people were talking about trying to get them closer. 266 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 4: You just get the popular ones and you move them 267 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 4: and the others follow. 268 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 3: Commedians to do a routine. We used just said they're 269 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 3: all robots because the thirteenth one always falls over the 270 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 3: great colon cold. 271 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 2: Yes, stump penguins, yes. 272 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 3: Stunt penguins, yes, noting about penguins though, no, sorry, no, 273 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 3: that's all right. They do they do slide, They do slide, 274 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 3: they do, and they've often they can often use in 275 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 3: water slide advertising as well. 276 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 2: Penguins exactly. 277 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 3: Okay, So clon Curry, well we need to go to 278 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 3: the source. We need to actually speak to someone in 279 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 3: clon Curry. There's no one better though than the mayor. 280 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 9: Do you want to come into places as give you 281 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 9: a shoulder? 282 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 10: Greg Campbell, mayor of the Cloncurry Shire clon Curry was 283 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 10: here first where over one hundred and fifty years old. 284 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 10: Man iSER was one hundred I think last year. You know, 285 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 10: most things that has grown man iSER has come from 286 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 10: clon Curry. 287 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 9: Their radio was started with. 288 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 10: Great assistance from the Clonkerry Radio Committee. But the two 289 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 10: places work together. You know, the man iSER Radio is 290 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 10: only really as good as far as the competitors go 291 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 10: because it's the weekend after the clon Carry one and 292 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 10: the mine and the smelter, and that side of man 293 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 10: Isa only works really well now because of all the 294 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 10: copper concentrate coming from the Cloncerry Shire going up to 295 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 10: keep it full. So you know, we really work well together, 296 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,199 Speaker 10: even though from Cloncurry we know that clon Carry West 297 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 10: is just a suburb of c Curry. 298 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 3: WO it's fighting words, isn't it? 299 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 2: And I love a bit of rivalry. 300 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 3: What other famous I mean in football's Carlton, Collingwood, Fort Holden. 301 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: There's not two giant prawns that's Bana. 302 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 2: Was there a prawn and a yabby? 303 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 3: I think there might be. There's only one giant pineapple 304 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 3: that's in Naanbore. 305 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 4: But also see the thing here isn't necessarily that the 306 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 4: rivalry is the actual critter so much as it's the giant. 307 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,359 Speaker 4: You know, there's a giant marina, a giant sheep in yas. 308 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 3: Giant strawberry and yours shep. 309 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 4: Yeah and so and all these things that they're trying 310 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 4: to lure people there. Other kids can go and play 311 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 4: on a giant banana or yabby. I think there's two bananas. 312 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 3: There's another banana part from the Cops Harbor one which 313 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 3: isn't even that big medium sized banana. 314 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 2: It was and it was green and. 315 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 3: It goes brown in summer. Okay, so there's a there's 316 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 3: a rivalry between Matt Arjen and clon Curry, But hey, 317 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 3: there's been no mention of the water side. What is 318 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 3: the mayor of Klon curry Greek Camp what does he 319 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 3: think about when he hears about man Eyes is going 320 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 3: to get a water slide. 321 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 9: We had a bit of a smirk when we heard that. 322 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,439 Speaker 10: You know, there was a caveat that it just had 323 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,719 Speaker 10: to be better than clon Curry's and we knew they. 324 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 9: Could probably be bigger, it might be brighter, but. 325 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 10: It was never going to be better because it was 326 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 10: just in Mount een oOoOO. 327 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 4: Finding words, but that is commensurate with population. Yes, clon 328 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 4: Curry is only a few thousand people. 329 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 3: Three thousand I think three thousand, and maunt Eyes is 330 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 3: twenty or something, So you. 331 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: Could argue that you would have to build a bigger one. 332 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: And then one of klon Curry's not staffed. It's just 333 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 3: sits there. They don't need attendance, that don't. 334 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 2: Need don't need a lifesaver on Jinny, Yeah. 335 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 3: I've seen it. I was there with him and it's 336 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 3: not bad. You can hear the water slide in the 337 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 3: background as we're chatting. So man Ey doesnt want to 338 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 3: build a bigger and better one than Cloncurry. Has there 339 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 3: been any examples in Australia near the World of a 340 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 3: town getting a water slide as a tourist attraction. I mean, 341 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 3: obviously we spoke to Andrew about the Gold Coast. That's 342 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: obviously different. There's a big urban area, there's heaps of 343 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 3: theme parks, but a small town getting a water slide. 344 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 3: Have you heard of anything, Brat, I have not, Dave, 345 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 3: have you? Well, there is a place in w a 346 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 3: good Colan, remote w A and they got a water 347 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 3: slide which changed their tourism. Ah, should we talk to 348 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 3: someone from there. 349 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 4: Okay, and just before we talk to that person, thing 350 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 4: about having the water slide as an attraction. If you 351 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 4: have to sell it to people, which we'll discuss later, 352 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 4: then that is a unique selling point to people to say. 353 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 4: You know, it's like that episode of The Simpsons, the monorail. 354 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 4: It's like saying to people, we're gonna have water slide. 355 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, why don't care. It would be bigger than Cloncurry. 356 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 4: I'm in yes, yes. 357 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 3: Yes, And what's Springfield's of course arrival in the Simpsons Selbyville. 358 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 3: Let's ring someone from Cooland and talk to them about 359 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 3: their water slide. We've got John Bell on the line. 360 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 3: He's from Corland. Good afternoon, Well, good morning. Where you are? 361 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 8: Good morning? How are you this morning? 362 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 3: Tell everyone where is calling it? 363 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 4: In? 364 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 8: W A christ As three hundred kilometers from Albany, three 365 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 8: hundred kilometers from Bumbree, three hundred kilometers from Perth, three. 366 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: Hundred kumeters from everywhere? 367 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, sound of it. 368 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 8: Oh, it's fantastic. We're so close to every coast. 369 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: So, John, you involved in getting a water slide for cooling. 370 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 3: So who came up with the idea? 371 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 8: Well? Really, I think it came from the school. 372 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 2: The school kids. 373 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 8: Were sort of asked what they thought they needed in 374 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 8: the town to make it a good town to live 375 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 8: in or you know, make it right up with everyone else. 376 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 8: And one of the parents bought it to this Shire 377 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 8: council of which I was a member at the time, 378 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 8: and we thought, well that's a good idea. So half 379 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 8: my own bat I did three trips east to see 380 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 8: if we could find one secondhand, because I knew some 381 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 8: over there were being pulled down. 382 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 3: Where did you find it? 383 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 8: Well, that one came from Budroam. It was a tan 384 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 8: of our water slide originally right and a church group 385 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 8: I believe had bought the site to have a church 386 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 8: to run and still run the church in the buildings, 387 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 8: but they didn't want to slide there and. 388 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,959 Speaker 3: So you arranged for it to be bought and are 389 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 3: transported to Corlan. I did all that, yep, And I 390 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 3: don't want to be vulgar. But how much roughly was 391 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 3: the water? How much is it? Because it's quite a 392 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 3: big water slide, isn't it looking at the photos? 393 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 8: Oh? Yes, eighteen menace tall, spiral Wow spiral water slide 394 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 8: and Menace tall. 395 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 3: How much was that how much would that set me back? 396 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 8: Well, well, really we only paid twenty five grand for it. Wow, 397 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 8: you can buy a lot of things when they need 398 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 8: pulling down and shifting. 399 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 9: Yeah. 400 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 8: I organized some trailers and trucks and some volunteers to 401 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 8: go over there. So we went over there, took us 402 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 8: about three days to get there, three and a half 403 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 8: days to get there or something straight in a motel 404 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 8: only about five hundred meters from the slide itself. Arrange 405 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 8: for a demolition mob to pull it down, and we 406 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 8: loaded it straight on the trucks there and. 407 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: Then do you remember how many trucks. 408 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 8: Four truck loads there? And then there was another trial 409 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 8: and went over later. 410 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 3: And then how long did it take to set up? 411 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 8: Well, for a start, it needed refurbishing, as you can imagine, 412 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,919 Speaker 8: twenty five year old, fool, twenty year old slide. So 413 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 8: the shire called tenders for that, and the best tender 414 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 8: came in a two point two million. That automatically meant 415 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 8: where we're going to throw it in the bin. I 416 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 8: was involved with a little company over there at the time, 417 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 8: and I sat down with my partner and said, Rob, 418 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 8: what do you reckon? We could do this for so 419 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 8: we sat down and we worked it all out and 420 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 8: we looked at how much repair work had to be 421 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 8: done on the steel work, get it sand blasted, get 422 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 8: it painted, and get it erected. So we came up 423 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 8: and reckon we could do it. Basically it costs for 424 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 8: the count to the shire for about three hundred thousand dollars, 425 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 8: which is what we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we 426 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 8: said it that made it economical. We sad blasted it professionally. 427 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 8: We've got a professionally worlded up and professionally painted in 428 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 8: two Pac paints so Primer and services. 429 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: And it was all there. There was nothing missing. 430 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, And that's why I bought that one. 431 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 8: The previous two I'd looked at one in New South 432 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 8: Wales in one in Queensland had all been dismantled. So 433 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 8: we didn't have any we didn't have any paperwork. We 434 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 8: didn't know how much was there and how much wasn't there. 435 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 8: That's what appealed to me about this one. 436 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 3: Are you there for the opening? 437 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 8: Ah, A lot of the people were really excited. There's 438 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 8: a few negative which you're always going to get. Yeah, Coerland, 439 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 8: there was a little town. There's only about Frandred people 440 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 8: live in the town. Wow, but it's a shire over 441 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty kilometers long and there's about nine 442 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 8: hundred in the shire. We're always going to get a 443 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 8: bit of negativity because it's small and we're going to 444 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 8: be spending money. But now, of course within it going 445 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 8: in it's all accolades. Yeah, accolades. 446 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 3: How did the water side change the amount of people 447 00:19:59,000 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 3: coming into Colon? 448 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 8: Then the first few weeks it was up, I saw 449 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 8: a bus load came up from Collie. Now Collie is 450 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 8: only sixty kilometers from Bumbry on the coast and two 451 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 8: hundred cas to cooling. They made a special point to 452 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 8: coming up there to use our slide on a couple 453 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 8: of occasions. Meriden, which is on the main Great Eastern 454 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 8: Highway heading east, is one hundred miles north. I've seen 455 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 8: the same thing happen from there, and I've seen people 456 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 8: come down from those places book into our caravan park 457 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 8: and stay there for a weekend to use it to 458 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 8: enjoy the water slide. 459 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 2: What kind of water do you use? 460 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 8: It is using scheme water cool and is on the 461 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 8: scheme and we use ski water when it comes to 462 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 8: our ovals we've got our own dam supply the water 463 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 8: for that. 464 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 3: So, John, are you now known in town as a 465 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 3: bit of a legion because you bought the water slide 466 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 3: to cool And surely you must get accolades when you 467 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 3: walk down the street nowadays. 468 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 8: Ago back in those days there was seven four and 469 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 8: three agains. 470 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 471 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 8: Once it's gone up and I realize what it's done 472 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 8: for the town and are still doing for the town. 473 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 8: Those that were against it at the time were, well, 474 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 8: I'm surely in favor of it now and almost try 475 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 8: to say they were from day one. That you get 476 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 8: you'll get bad with anything you do. 477 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, John. Hey, thanks for talking to us. 478 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 2: John. 479 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 8: All right, it's been a pleasure. 480 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 2: John. 481 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 3: What a shaker. Small towns and need people like that. 482 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 4: Br under jump Bell water slide mate. And he's got 483 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 4: to ring to it, hasn't it. 484 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Belle, you know what he brought up a 485 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 3: very interesting point there. There's always negative people against it, 486 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 3: and then eventually they'll try and claim that it was 487 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 3: their idea. Yeah, because this is a thing you can 488 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 3: suggest a water slider, man iSER, but then you've got 489 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 3: to get through council. 490 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 2: Brad. 491 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 4: People don't realize that every single bit of infrastructure or 492 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 4: play equipment or whatever that you see had to be 493 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 4: approved by someone. Yes, and someone had to bring that up. 494 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 4: If you try past a park and you see a 495 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 4: swing and a slide, somebody had to approve that. Now, 496 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 4: that puddle underneath the swing, that happened naturally. 497 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 3: But also someone probably tried to approve it. Then someone 498 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 3: was probably voting against them. 499 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: There probably somebody's saying, I think we've got enough. I 500 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 2: think we've got enough swings. One about the calm bitch 501 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 2: and the potholes, and there was the eye. 502 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 4: Watering costs he talked about, Yes, just the idea that 503 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 4: that's a movie in itself. That's like a Bruce Willis 504 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 4: movie of getting trucks and we're just going to drive 505 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 4: over and just put it on shrucks. If he'd bought 506 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 4: one of those disassembled ones, yes, they could have got 507 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 4: back and found they bought a submarine. 508 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 3: Yea piece is missing. 509 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. When he said how much they wanted, he said, 510 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: there's three hundred people. 511 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 3: Where are they going to get two point twenty million? Yeah, 512 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 3: and that's after they bought the water slide. But they're 513 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 3: just a refurbishment someone's trying to rip them off. Now 514 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: we need more John Bows. Anyway, Look Mount Eyes at 515 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 3: middle of Queensland a lot of money. There is money 516 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 3: to be had from the government facilities for things like this. 517 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 3: Let's cross the Kim Cogglin, she is the assistant mayor 518 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 3: of Mount Isa. 519 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 11: The mining industries all over Queensland give so much in 520 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 11: royalties and not enough comes back into the region. So 521 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 11: you could apply for two different sorts of funding and 522 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 11: we applied. The big amount of funding we applied for 523 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 11: was to put toilets and change rooms in all our 524 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 11: sporting facilities, which was a great idea. 525 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 3: Okay, cogo there. As we know, this is a thing 526 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 3: about council. Okay. People want different things. People want different things, 527 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 3: that's the way it goes. Some people wanted water slides, 528 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 3: some people wanted toilet facilities for the sporting grounds. 529 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 4: Money comes from services, money comes from rates rates. Yeah, 530 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 4: but that's not where you're going to find all the money. 531 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 3: You've got to get government money, like federal government, state government. 532 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,439 Speaker 4: And there's no more money kicking around than before an election. 533 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 5: Ah. 534 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so we don't know. But let's see. 535 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 3: Daniel Slade was the mayor at the time, let's hear 536 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 3: from it. She wanted to water slide. 537 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 6: This was the resource money. So the Queensland government had 538 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 6: gone to all the mines in Queensland and said, we 539 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 6: want some money from you, and we're gonna put two 540 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 6: hundred million dollars to mostly resource communities or communities that 541 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 6: support resources for infrastructure. So I think one was like 542 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 6: twenty million dollars major and one was one million dollars. 543 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 6: So to pacify me, they said, you can have a 544 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 6: water slide, but it has to be a million dollar 545 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 6: water slide. And at the time this is round one. 546 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 6: I was just thankful they agreed. So radio and of 547 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 6: course round one was over and we got zilch zero. 548 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 2: They got zilch nothing. They got not a thing, not 549 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: even a swing. 550 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 3: So they put in for the money from the government. 551 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 3: They got not a swing, not a part, not a 552 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 3: park bench. Throw them a bone, Queenslank government. 553 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 2: What happened there? 554 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 3: What happened? Well, let's let's continue on with the story. 555 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 3: What else happened. Let's hear again from Daniel Slade. 556 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 6: So I don't know if he's in the council meeting, but. 557 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 3: The other council meeting I. 558 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 6: Couldn't get the counselors to agree to move it into 559 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,919 Speaker 6: the twenty million slot where we could get a three 560 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 6: or four million dollar water slide. They were stubborn on 561 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 6: sticking to that one million dollar water slide. So in 562 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 6: the end I vibed against everything, and I got a 563 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 6: chance to talk to the Northwest the article I sort 564 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 6: of talked about, you know, we should have been putting 565 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 6: up a lot of projects, and there's no doubt in 566 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 6: my mind that, you know, the project that the councilors 567 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 6: wanted were toilets and showers for sporting communities. 568 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 3: Should we hear a bit of the council meeting? 569 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 2: I think we should. 570 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 3: I mean, have you been a local council's? 571 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: Oh? 572 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 2: No, I haven't been at one. 573 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 3: Surely no, I've never been a council meeting. 574 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: I've never been. 575 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 4: Normally, I'm straight to you know, the burning torches in 576 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 4: the pitchforks and marching straight on state government. 577 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 3: David, State government. 578 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: You both pass the local local council meetings. 579 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 3: Local councils, in my experience, attract all sorts of people 580 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 3: with all sorts of agendas and all sorts of issues, 581 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 3: and there's always fighting and arguing no matter where you 582 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 3: are in Australia, let's cross the Daniel in the meeting, actually. 583 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 6: Special meeting of Man as a city council. The time 584 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 6: is now nine oh one. It was my idea for 585 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 6: the water slide, but it's not big enough. And as 586 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 6: much as I love the one in klon Curry and 587 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 6: I get that you don't need a lifeguard, we should 588 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 6: be going bigger and better. We should have what Townsfall has. 589 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 6: We should have what the Big four has in Caravan 590 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 6: Park has. We should have something that is fantastic. You know, 591 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 6: we're a city of twenty thousand people and don't get 592 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 6: me wrong, I'll be happy with whatever we get, but 593 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 6: this should be bigger than better than what we're putting 594 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,959 Speaker 6: up there. And I think we're missing out on an 595 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 6: opportunity here. And I just wanted to explain why I 596 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 6: will be voting against this motion. 597 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 9: Tut. 598 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 3: That's a council meaning. So they put in for this money, 599 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 3: they don't get the funding for the toilets. 600 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 4: They don't get funding them toilets, which makes me think 601 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 4: they have to go to klon Curry, go to the toilet. 602 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 3: There's still dolets here. They need upgrading. 603 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 4: I think, yeah, no, that was they wanted all the 604 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 4: sporting clubs to have upgraded toilets and showers. 605 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 3: But the good news is bad. They get money for 606 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 3: the water slide. But how much do they get I 607 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 3: don't know. If they get one million dollars, which is 608 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 3: not enough. That's only enough to build like a Klon 609 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 3: curry water slide, or as doctor Evin would. 610 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 2: Say, yes, one million dollars. 611 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 3: It still makes me laugh. Anyway, a million dollars is 612 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 3: only enough to build a small water slide, so. 613 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 2: One that probably only goes halfway. 614 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 3: Let's hear back from the council. It's his cargo. 615 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 11: We missed out on the funding for the toilets and 616 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 11: change rooms, but we got the money for the slide. 617 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 6: It was it was hard, it was hard, and in 618 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 6: the end I did get my way and council put 619 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 6: our extra million dollars towards it. 620 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 3: The council missed out on the toilet blocks, the toilet upgrade. 621 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 3: They got them million dollars to the water slide, but 622 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 3: then they chipped in another million dollars from the rates. 623 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 3: Basically they can't counsel money. And I think eventually it 624 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 3: was over a million dollars they had to put in 625 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 3: because they decided that this they wanted a water slide, 626 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 3: and they wanted it bigger than Kloncurry. They only got 627 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 3: a million dollars from the government. They had to get 628 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 3: another million dollars or so to build it. That's classic 629 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 3: council stuff. 630 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 4: Does beg the question when you're sitting next door to 631 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 4: a billion dollar mine, where are you going to get 632 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 4: a million dollars? 633 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, you think the mine were checking some kind of money. 634 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 4: If only there was somewhere someone had some cash. 635 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 3: But as we found out on this podcast, the relationship 636 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 3: with the mine is not great. Okay, they've got the 637 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 3: money for the water slide. Brad, how do you get 638 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 3: the water slide? Do you do what John Bell did 639 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 3: and find an old one and do it or do 640 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 3: you build something brand new? 641 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 4: I suspect John Bell got the last decent one. 642 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 3: Yes. Do you go on Facebook marketplace and put it 643 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:57,959 Speaker 3: out there exactly? 644 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 2: You know, just yeah, looking for a water slide and go. 645 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 3: Well, we've already heard Andrew Potts from the Gold Coaster, 646 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 3: you know, I've got his rabbit costume on Facebook marketplace. 647 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a significant difference. 648 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 4: See and This is something else that happens with the 649 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 4: innovation when you go all right, we've decided now we 650 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 4: want to build a rocket that goes to Mars. 651 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 2: Who's going to build a rocket? 652 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly. We have no expertise, no, and Facebook 653 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 3: marketplace won't help you. Well, let's talk to Daniel from Simplex, 654 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 3: they make water slide. He's got something to do with 655 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 3: the Mount Isa water slide. 656 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 12: Daniel labor On from a company called Swimplex. We build 657 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 12: water slides and sort of do commercial filtration bits and places, 658 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 12: commercial pools, anything aquatics. 659 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 3: Really, how long have you been involving water slides and pools? 660 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 12: The company started in the late eighties. I suppose we 661 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 12: have to make our own water slides in Coffs Harbor, 662 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 12: the town Robb spend most of my life and now 663 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 12: we import them from Europe. 664 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 3: As the demand for water slide it's increased because just 665 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 3: doing this podcast, there seems to be a lot in Queensland. 666 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 12: Now there are a lot of Queensland. Yeah, there seems 667 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 12: to be a big push over the last probably ten 668 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 12: fifteen years that they've sort of made a decent resurgence 669 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 12: and yeah, you're seeing a lot of them in Queensland. 670 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 12: Queensland's a bit tough with all the regulations you guys 671 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 12: have got there but still seeming to push them through. 672 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 3: And so what makes a good water slide. 673 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 12: It's just a gradient, so it'd start to finish. You 674 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 12: obviously want to you want a balance of a quick 675 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 12: sort of bungee jumping experience if you're going down so 676 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,479 Speaker 12: quick with the kids and you're also on a family 677 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 12: experience with the rafting slide or something where mum and 678 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 12: dad can jump on with the kid. Or you want 679 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 12: a entry level top, a meandering slide that comes down 680 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 12: the hill all ower gradient. Normally we stick to like 681 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 12: third four percent up till forty percent maybe for like 682 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 12: a thrill ride. 683 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 3: When counsels or whoever chooses a water slide, are they 684 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 3: just like three or four to pick from on or 685 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 3: do you design them for what they actually want? 686 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 12: They're all custom designs, so yeah, we generally get a 687 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 12: site plan and have some input from the council and 688 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 12: a bit of a demographic for the area and figure 689 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 12: out from their door sketch and it's designed overseas. They manufactured. 690 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,479 Speaker 12: We ratify with austrain engineers and then comes the problem 691 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 12: job of installing it. It's way more fun riding them 692 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 12: than actually installing in their absolute night meadow. 693 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 3: Install Okay, you used to build them locally. Now they're 694 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 3: built offshore. Where they're building. 695 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 12: Them Istanbul in Turkey, Turkey. Yeah, Turkey's where a lot 696 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 12: of the manufacturers sort of make fiberglass over there. Now 697 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 12: it's a bit of a it's a good temperature most 698 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 12: of the year around, a sort of cure fiberglass. The 699 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 12: labor cost and other bits and pieces. Unfortunately, the way 700 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 12: the world works. 701 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 3: Wow, interesting stuff and being made in Turkey. I didn't 702 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 3: know what it. Slights were made in Turkey, did you 703 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 3: know that, Bradford? 704 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 2: I did not know any I don't know what's made 705 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 2: in Turkey. 706 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 3: Turkey's bread, yeah, okay, right, the Turkey must have a 707 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 3: huge amount of acting industry that we're not aware of exactly. 708 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 3: You know what, though, if you're in the middle of 709 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 3: Queens in fact, if you're anywhere around Australia and you're 710 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 3: saying we're getting a water slide from Turkey, what are 711 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,239 Speaker 3: the locals going to say? 712 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 2: Well, what's wrong with Australian water slides? 713 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 3: Let's hear from cargo. 714 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 11: Yep, it was made in Turkey, and we got a 715 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 11: lot of flak off that too, like why don't you 716 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 11: get someone in Australia to you know, why don't you 717 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 11: get local rahra. Well, it's a specialized field like and 718 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 11: that's just where the company get it from. 719 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 3: Okay, this is exciting, Brad. We're at the end of 720 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 3: episode two of our podcast. They ordered the water slide 721 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 3: from Turkey. 722 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 2: It's just a matter of time. 723 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 3: What could go wrong? 724 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 2: What roll? 725 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 3: This is a bit of a teaser for next week. 726 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 3: This is when things really kick up. Forget about Andrew 727 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 3: and his rabbit costume, John Bell and his water slide, 728 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 3: and then they say, is ever listen to Mark Miller, 729 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 3: who's the guy who is employed to get the water slide. 730 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 13: From two there was a bit of an issue in 731 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 13: the Suez Canal where one of the contenders got hold 732 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 13: up and pirates seemed to take a bit of a 733 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 13: lake into the slides and off off that went whooa. 734 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 3: This is where the story gets international. Tune in next 735 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 3: week for the pirates. The pirates have not the Caribbean 736 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 3: Sews Canal. 737 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 6: To me, it was like the dogs late my homework. 738 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 6: You know, they haven't ordered it. 739 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 11: So I didn't really believe Jack's parrot's the only pirate 740 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 11: I'd like to beat. 741 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: Slippery Slope, a true crime podcast about Male Isa and 742 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: the missing water Slide. 743 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 2: With Dave O'Neill and Brado's. 744 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 3: Slippery Slope is written and hosted by Dave O'Neill and 745 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 3: Brad Oak's original use it created by Itinerant Productions. Check 746 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 3: out their website. There's some great stuff there. 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