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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday morning news broke that five lions had escaped their

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Speaker 2: enclosure at t Rongazoo, sparking an emergency with guests on site.

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Speaker 2: Some of those guests included school children participating in the

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Speaker 2: zoo's Raw and Snore program. We've both done that, Brendan,

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Speaker 2: with our kids. The guests were directed to run to

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Speaker 2: safe zones and a Code one was activated. Well, Magnus

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Speaker 2: Perry was there sleeping in the line enclosure with his family. Terrifying,

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Speaker 2: he joins us. Now, Magnus, hello, hey, so how did

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Speaker 2: the morning unfold?

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Speaker 3: For you? To talk us through what happened this time yesterday?

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Speaker 1: So really, I woke up very very early. I think

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Speaker 1: it was around four o'clock. The lions were actually roaring,

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Speaker 1: you could hear them really clearly. And my son wok

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Speaker 1: up and he said, Daddy, I'm scared, and I just

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Speaker 1: told him that you know, it's lions. Then tonal animals,

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Speaker 1: they're awake when we're asleep, don't worry about the thing,

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Speaker 1: and we're back to sleep again. Then I woke up

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Speaker 1: again at six and got up, got ready for breakfast.

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Speaker 1: My wife's still in bed, kids slowly waking up. But

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Speaker 1: in the morning, I think it was the alarm came

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Speaker 1: on from all the speakers throughout the zoo, and the

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Speaker 1: zoo keepers came running down, says screaming, get out of

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Speaker 1: your tent. This is a code one. You have to

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Speaker 1: get out, really belonging, let's go, go go sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: And we didn't really know what happened or what was

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Speaker 1: going on. So we got out of the tent and

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Speaker 1: then we had to rush up to this little cabin

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Speaker 1: or area where you have the showers and bathrooms, and

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Speaker 1: they got us in there. They counted up, making sure

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Speaker 1: that everyone was out of the tent, and then they

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Speaker 1: locked the doors. And when they did that, I realised

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Speaker 1: it's going to be something out there, you know, while

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Speaker 1: they're looking as in like this.

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Speaker 4: Because in your water streams you go along to something

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Speaker 4: like ruin snow and you wouldn't think the lines what

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Speaker 4: happens if the lions gone that.

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Speaker 1: Well, first they said that this is probably just a drill.

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Speaker 1: They do them kind of every now and then, just

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Speaker 1: to keep on top of things if things actually would happen.

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Speaker 1: But pretty quickly it became clear that this is not

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Speaker 1: a drill. This is something real, and we still didn't

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Speaker 1: know what it was. But I heard kind of on

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Speaker 1: the radio that they couldn't find them and asked them

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Speaker 1: what of them? Who are them? And then a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes later we realized, Okay, the lines are actually out.

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Speaker 3: So how did your children? How did your children respond

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Speaker 3: to all this?

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Speaker 1: They've been more excited than scared of the pace I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine, and to referred to it as Jurassic Park experience.

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Speaker 2: And when I was watching the news last night and

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Speaker 2: you see that it's a male line and the others

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Speaker 2: were cubs.

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Speaker 3: Could they could they still do damage to you? The cubs?

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Speaker 3: Did you hear anything about that?

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Speaker 1: I saw them matter before. They They were massive. I

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Speaker 1: think they've said they were eighteen months old or something,

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Speaker 1: but they were to me fully grows Ryan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And when you could hear them roaring near you, were

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Speaker 2: they near you or would you have heard them from

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Speaker 2: their enclosure anyway?

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Speaker 1: No, that I would have heard them from the enclosure.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty close, and I didn't think

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Speaker 1: they were were out of course, I don't think they

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Speaker 1: actually were out right right.

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Speaker 4: I like how you stirred up the media when you

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Speaker 4: came out and they were all hanging around, and you said,

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Speaker 4: there's blood everywhere.

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Speaker 1: You're going to make it a bit.

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Speaker 4: You've got to sell it, You've got to sell it.

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Speaker 3: No one was hard. It was a great adventure city.

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Speaker 4: Get a joke. Well, all the better for it. Think

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Speaker 4: it's not going to put you on off zoos in

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Speaker 4: any way, obviously.

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. I mean the stuff again, the staff

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Speaker 1: did a fantastic job that almost like a airline pilot's

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Speaker 1: protocols checklist. You know, they knew exactly what to do,

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Speaker 1: what to say, how to act to react. They were great.

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Speaker 2: Well, I bet you've got it through a few free

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Speaker 2: zoo passes out of it too.

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Speaker 1: No, we didn't even know, really didn't ask for.

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Speaker 3: It, that's out right.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know the thing about the zoo is yelling

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Speaker 4: you need to go once every ten years.

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Speaker 3: So you've done your bit.

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Speaker 4: Really, you've done your bit.

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Speaker 1: It's not my kids right that they would probably want

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Speaker 1: to go next week again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to go board next time. Letting letting

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Speaker 4: out the baboons. Magnus Perry, thank you for joining us,

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Speaker 4: no

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Speaker 1: Worries, thank you,