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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Johnsy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Raised on the rugged plains of Australia, Matt Wright has

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Speaker 2: done plenty of jobs, horse wrangling, Australian Army soldier, crocodile

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Speaker 2: egg collecting. That was on my list of things to

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Speaker 2: do as well, but this has helped develop his passion

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Speaker 2: and skills for a career as a helicopter pilot and

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Speaker 2: a wildlife relocator. He's on the hunt for the biggest

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Speaker 2: crocs on Earth. We see all of this in his

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Speaker 2: new show Wild Territory. He joins us now, Matt Wright.

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Speaker 1: Hello, hey, hell, are you a Maday?

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Speaker 3: We'll go wear good thanks Matt. So crocodile egg collector?

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Speaker 3: Is that like an Easter egg hunt? Same sort of thing, Yeah, some.

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Speaker 1: Similar, just that the bunny's got a few more taps.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely. I love the primos for this show because

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Speaker 2: you involved. There's your wife, there's your toddler. You're doing

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Speaker 2: hideously dangerous things and your wife says, look, dad will

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Speaker 2: change in happy in a sect once Dad's finished wrestling

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Speaker 2: the crock and tied it up. Is this how life

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Speaker 2: actually is? That normal domesticity lives so by side with

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Speaker 2: this danger.

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Speaker 1: It's not dangerous, just life. But yeah, hey, we got

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Speaker 1: a lot lot going on. And whether it's chopper is

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Speaker 1: their boats, crocodiles or fishing, you know, it's just it's good.

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Speaker 1: It's good fun up here in the territory. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty day day operation.

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Speaker 2: With everyone's love of Steve, who when we think he's

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Speaker 2: the crocodile guy, we forget that other people are allowed

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Speaker 2: to be crocodile guys and so have you always had

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Speaker 2: a love of crocs?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, reptiles and animals in general, you know, ever

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Speaker 1: since I was a kid, and as I grew up,

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Speaker 1: so did be as as as as a growing up there, bloody,

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Speaker 1: the animal's gott a bit bigger and reptiles got a

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Speaker 1: bit bigger. And yeah, it's it's been been a huge

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Speaker 1: passion sort of looking after wildlife and the environment that

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Speaker 1: they live in.

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Speaker 3: What was your first reptile.

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Speaker 1: I always had a lot of snakes. I was catching

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Speaker 1: a lot of browns, as pytheans and ship when I

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Speaker 1: was when I was a young fellow to keep us pets, Matt, No,

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Speaker 1: I just move. I'm just relocating them out of favous

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Speaker 1: backyards and friends' houses and active parents wanted to kill them,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, NA, like they can they can

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Speaker 1: live here too, you know.

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Speaker 2: And when you say wildlife relocator, you take things from

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Speaker 2: people when they come into suburban life and you move

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Speaker 2: them on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we draw on just keep the balance between human

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Speaker 1: and animals. You know. There's always a conflict of you know,

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Speaker 1: and humans encroaching into the wild, into the environment where

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Speaker 1: the animals live and vice versa. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: think we think the animals come into our environment. Pretty sure.

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Speaker 1: It's the opposite way around. We've got our cities in our

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Speaker 1: towns into their environment and we have to learn to

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Speaker 1: live with and look after all we've got left.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly it. And how many Darwin Stubbies can you

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Speaker 3: have before you operate a helicopter?

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Speaker 1: Zib Maybe a couple of day before, but definitely not.

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Speaker 3: Do they still make them the Darwin Stubby? Can I

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Speaker 3: still get one? No?

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Speaker 1: I think they went out quite a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: They've got a few good Great Normans up here. That's

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Speaker 1: the that's the drinking choice up here.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's drinking Great Northern. Now everyone's on the Great Northern bandwagon. Well,

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Speaker 3: this place is the Great North, but it comes out

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Speaker 3: of Queensland. It's not it's not a territory beer, but

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Speaker 3: still you know, yeah, but I'm not here to debate

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Speaker 3: beer with you. Matt.

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Speaker 2: The show looks fantastic, Matt. It looks really exciting. So

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Speaker 2: it's Wild Territory Tuesdays eight then studies to night eight

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Speaker 2: thirty on Channel nine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And Matt, it's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Say you enjoy day