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Speaker 2: Yeah, on the cutting room floor today. That's a croc.

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Speaker 1: That's a croc. Let's talk about crocodiles. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the Fitzroy River in Queensland, which is about five hundred

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Speaker 1: k's north of Brisbane. This is home to a lot

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Speaker 1: of crocodiles and in the nineteen seventies salties were a

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Speaker 1: protected species. Well they've been a protected species since then

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Speaker 1: because their population was decimated by hunting before that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone, Well that was what crocodile Dundee was based

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Speaker 3: on because for the crocodile meat and the leather, all

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Speaker 3: those things as Ermese bags, they're made of crocodile la cost.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've seen the shoes the crocs, so they

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Speaker 1: made of crocodiles. Actually, have they thought of making crocs

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Speaker 1: out of crocodiles?

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Speaker 2: This is a great idea. Let's get on the ground floor.

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Speaker 1: So what's interesting is that this is what's happening in

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Speaker 1: the Fitzroy River. Crocs live there. Let's just accept that

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Speaker 1: it's five hundred k's north of Brisbane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: It was announced in March that this is going to

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Speaker 1: be the scene of the rowing and the canoeing events

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Speaker 1: in the twenty thirty two Olympic and Paralympic Games in Queensland.

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Speaker 1: So you're getting a river that is infested with crocs

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Speaker 1: and telling your rowing and canoeingists that that's where they're

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Speaker 1: going to do it. They're saying. Locals are saying that

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Speaker 1: running into an apex predator is unlikely at that time

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Speaker 1: of year, but the saltwater crocs are most easy to spot.

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Speaker 1: They bask their cold blood on the river banks. But

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Speaker 1: you can never be sure. And how about this? Professor

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Speaker 1: Craig Franklin, the University of Queensland's croc expert, says, why

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Speaker 1: would you do that rowing in a place where it's

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Speaker 1: the natural habitat of the world's largest species of crocodile

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Speaker 1: million and arguably the most dangerous. Why would you do it?

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Speaker 2: What would you do it?

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Speaker 1: It'll make you row faster?

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Speaker 2: There is that.

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Speaker 3: I'm not thinking more of the crocodiles, but just the distance.

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Speaker 3: Why the hell they've got it In Brisbane. The Brisbane

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Speaker 3: River which had rowing clubs because I know that because

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Speaker 3: when I lived in Brisbane, I used to row on

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Speaker 3: the Brisbane River and canoe on the Brisbane River.

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Speaker 2: Why aren't they just doing it in Brisbane?

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Speaker 1: Are they Brisbane Games or they Queensland Games?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Don't they like to spread them around?

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Speaker 2: Five hundred CA's is miles away? This is the DoBeS

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Speaker 2: that run this.

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Speaker 1: Ca Maybe they're having brandon the sailing events on the

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Speaker 1: Brisbane River, perhaps.

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Speaker 3: Sailing Morton Bay. Brisbane is a perfect city for the

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Speaker 3: Olympic Games. I just don't understand why they would put

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Speaker 3: it five hundred k's away from the city.

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Speaker 1: Maybe for funding they need to make it look like

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Speaker 1: we're going to get tourism to all kinds of places

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Speaker 1: around the state. I'm just speculating that. Maybe that's why.

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Speaker 2: The damn fools that run this country, why.

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Speaker 1: Don't they do it in a dam well?

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Speaker 2: You know it just it makes no sense.

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Speaker 1: You've been a rower, you said, yes, you to me.

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Speaker 1: What creatures have you seen in the Brisbane River? None?

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Speaker 1: I got a crab so brown? You got crabs in Brisbane?

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Speaker 2: I got a crab.

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Speaker 3: That's when you're out of step with all the other

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Speaker 3: rowers out of out of stroke, and the or digs

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Speaker 3: in and you get thrown out.

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Speaker 2: Of the boat.

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Speaker 1: So you got thrown into the water.

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't know. I got smashed in the head

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Speaker 2: by the oar.

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Speaker 1: It hurts, and then they throw you out.

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Speaker 2: Is that because you're run on the race? No?

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Speaker 3: The force because you're in an eight I was in

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Speaker 3: an eight man crew. You're rowing along and if you're

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Speaker 3: out of stroke, the or digs in and because it's

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Speaker 2: Out of the boat and throws you out of the boat.

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Speaker 2: It's crab.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I see, that's what the crab was.

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Speaker 3: Remember Sally laid down. Sally, she gave up to avoid

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Speaker 3: a crab. She that's why she laid down, so her

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Speaker 3: head wouldn't get.

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Speaker 1: Taken off because she got out of time. I thought

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Speaker 2: She gave she gave up.

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Speaker 1: Can you get back into the rhythm if.

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Speaker 2: You're once one?

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Speaker 3: And that's why all our teams blew up, because you

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Speaker 3: have to row and row until you die.

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Speaker 2: If you're in a rowing eight.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you get out of step, out of time,

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Speaker 1: you can't reclaim it. You just have to stop rowing.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen anyone reclaim it from

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Speaker 3: a crab once that or digs in and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Really, did you take pleasure in it rowing?

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Speaker 2: That's very good? Yeah, I like it. I like rowing.

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Speaker 2: I paddle every day.

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Speaker 1: On the solitary. I didn't see it as a team guy.

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Speaker 2: I didn't mind it so much.

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Speaker 3: But rowing, by and large, you've got to adjust everyone else.

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Speaker 1: And did you like being told what to do? Because

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Speaker 1: I know you have joined an older sailing crew and

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Speaker 1: you don't like being yelled at and told what to do.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're just old cranky blikes to just yell at you,

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Speaker 3: look at.

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Speaker 1: You, right. That's called having someone in charge. And you

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Speaker 1: don't like having someone in charge of the Jones Man.

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Speaker 2: And these guys because they've got no filter.

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Speaker 3: But the other thing is they're all captains of industry,

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Speaker 3: so you know, one owns a very successful appliance business

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Speaker 3: and they're all multi multi millionaires. And then there's me

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Speaker 3: and I'm just there because I do like to sail,

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Speaker 3: and it's nice to sail on Sydney Harbor. It's an

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Speaker 3: opportunity to sell these old eighteen footers that were round.

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Speaker 3: They still go to these days, but we don't have them.

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Speaker 3: These are the old ones, not the moderns. And from

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Speaker 3: they used to bet on them in the harbor in

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Speaker 3: the thirties. But these old guys, they just yell at

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Speaker 3: each other. One day, I'm sitting there just eating my

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Speaker 3: little birch of musley because it takes about five hours

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Speaker 3: to set up the boat. So I'm eating my birch

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Speaker 3: and musley, and Bob, who's on our crew, is there,

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Speaker 3: and there's another guy another talking about his uncle Bob.

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Speaker 2: That's another thing. All these guys are called Robert or Bob.

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Speaker 3: So this other guy called Angry, and there's no shortage

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Speaker 3: of blokes will tell you how it's done.

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Speaker 2: So this guy's angry. As I'm sitting bircher musley.

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Speaker 3: He goes, if my uncle Bob was here, he'd tell you,

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Speaker 3: blokes how to set this boat up.

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Speaker 2: And he just droned on and my eyes were glazing over.

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Speaker 3: Then my Bob from the crew looks at Angry. He goes,

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Speaker 3: and you know what this Bob guy says. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this angry guy says it, Well, you're not my uncle

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Speaker 3: Bob taught me. And then my Bob said that you're

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Speaker 3: an asshole, and you know when you Inhale Musly, I

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Speaker 3: put it.

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Speaker 1: To you, so I started choking, I know, But I

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Speaker 1: put it to you that anyone saying, hey, go over

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Speaker 1: and pull that rope, you'd be outraged because no one's

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Speaker 1: the boss of you. You're not good at teams.

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Speaker 3: No, I am good at teams, and I'm good at

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Speaker 3: taking direction, but when it's the dopes that run the country.

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Speaker 1: I think you've just answered my question.

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Speaker 3: So I would be yelling at Brisbane at the crocs.

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Speaker 2: Who's the president of Bristo. I'm not sure, Palichet, she

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Speaker 2: cocked it up because you didn't want to do it.

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Speaker 2: Who's the new one.

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Speaker 1: That I don't know? But you speaks so charmingly and

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Speaker 1: there's such an informed manner. We should be on the

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Speaker 1: Olympic committee.

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Speaker 3: Just put it in the Brisbane River for God's sake,

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Speaker 3: you idiots.

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Speaker 2: Come back tomorrow for yeah, yeah, yeah,