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Speaker 1: Hello, it's art simone, and aren't you lucky to be

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Speaker 1: graced with me in your ear holes? And your luck

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Speaker 1: doesn't stop there, no, because I have been working so

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Speaker 1: hard to find you everyday regular jobs that have an

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Speaker 1: interesting side to them, and then bring you the stories

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Speaker 1: of their weird jobs and sometimes scandalous hobbies. Let's meet

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Speaker 1: our regular Joe Roll the type.

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Speaker 2: Hello. My name is Darren and I'm thirty nine years old.

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Speaker 2: I'm from Melbourne, Victoria. I've been working in the public

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Speaker 2: sector for many years and in my spare time I

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Speaker 2: like to hang out in comedy venues performing a little

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Speaker 2: bit of comedy magic, but mainly doing sound and lighting them.

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Speaker 2: But I am concealing something that's pretty wild.

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Speaker 1: Wild. Well, Hollo, Darren, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I am great?

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Speaker 1: Here you are in front of me. You've got your

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Speaker 1: nice cap on, you got her a glasses. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to see if it's giving me any clues here today.

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Speaker 1: We've got a T shirt with a mountain yep oh ashemo, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know her. There is a chilly day today.

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Speaker 1: So you've got a nice little jacket and what is

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Speaker 1: it around your neck? What's that?

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Speaker 2: It's a crocodile.

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Speaker 1: You've got a crock around your neck?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is that a clues that a clueman run that down?

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Speaker 1: Kroc neck? I've got a shit neck, but that's close enough.

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Speaker 1: But all right, So you know I'm from Melbourne. I

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Speaker 1: did you say comedy magic?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Please explain.

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Speaker 2: So I don't call myself a magician because I don't

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to be a magician when I grew up,

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Speaker 1: when I was a little kid. So yeah, that rude, no,

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Speaker 1: But okay, So what makes the comedy magician? Do you

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty much. So my stage name is so you

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Speaker 2: know how You've got like the amazing Mumford and you

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Speaker 2: So my stage name is the kind of okay Darren,

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Speaker 2: it's a bit of fun. And you said lighting and sound, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm doing at the moment. Buttons, yeah, and

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Speaker 2: slide some things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not very good at that, but I just

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Speaker 1: know I like lots of fall back, fold back, fall back.

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Speaker 1: The tech always yells at me because I call it

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Speaker 1: fold back?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Fall back, back, fold back. I call it fall back,

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Speaker 1: fall back. Yes, I'm an idiot, that's okay. So what

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do is ask you three questions, and

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Speaker 1: from the answer to those three questions, I have to

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Speaker 1: determine what it is you were concealing from me today. Okay,

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Speaker 1: are you ready? Right?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay. Question number one, what is the worst injury you've

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's tough, because I've had a lot, had a

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Speaker 3: lot just prone to slipping, Like, yeah, yeah, if you

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Speaker 2: I had a workplace injury and I had to have

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Speaker 1: What workplace can you not tell me? Oh? This is

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Speaker 1: to be okay, workplace injury on the hand, we're talking

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Speaker 1: So I get you, okay. I also broke my foot

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Speaker 2: I don't I understand. I've got a pinch nerve in

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a pretty good crier to be. And

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Speaker 2: I never got injured doing that, but this pinch nerve.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people die beds, yep, So I think

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Speaker 2: So why has this not been raised before?

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Speaker 1: I know, I know. Look, we'll start a campaign after this.

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Speaker 1: But okay, question number two, if you could invite anyone

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Speaker 2: That's an easy one for me. David Attenborough David.

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Speaker 1: Ashenborough, Okay, well he could be dead soon, so that's

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Speaker 1: a good question. Question. You're safe with the director, okay.

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Speaker 1: And number three, if I had a tattoo gun and

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Speaker 1: I was forcing you to get a tattoo right now,

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Speaker 1: where would you get it and what would it be of?

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Speaker 2: I would get a hummingbird on my ribs under my

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's all very specific, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I've thought about this one.

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Speaker 1: Ribs left. Okay, let's look at the picture you've painted

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Speaker 1: for me here today, Darren magic lighting, crocodile on the neck, ruises,

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Speaker 1: damaged hand, hummingbird on your left ribs and David Attenbrough Yeah, wow, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's It's a whole load of shit, isn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's okay, No, okay, So I'm getting animals, right, I'm

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Speaker 1: getting animals because you know David Abrah, you know, or

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Speaker 1: David and just like speaks really calmly. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe you're really into calm things. Maybe you're like maybe

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Speaker 1: you make candles. That's in the maybe right, you know,

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Speaker 1: because that would make sense, you know, because with a hand,

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Speaker 1: molten like candle wax. No, I think that's all pointing

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Speaker 1: And medium open magicians they work with fire, so maybe

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Speaker 1: are you a candle maker?

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Speaker 2: I am not? Oh No, I am a wildlife presenter,

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Speaker 2: which means that I take snakes, spiders, sharks, sea stars, octopus,

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Speaker 2: a whole range of different animals into kindergartens and schools

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Speaker 1: I always go in the right direction that I doubted myself.

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Speaker 1: So Darren isn't a candle maker, he is a wildlife presenter.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he knows range of stacy? Do you

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Speaker 1: think this is my moment to be on totally wild?

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Speaker 1: All right? So we're here with Darren, who is not

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Speaker 2: I do like candle It's good to know.

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Speaker 1: All right, we can be friends. But you're actually a

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Speaker 1: wildlife presenter. Please explain what is that entail? What do

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Speaker 2: I work with children and animals. They say that you

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Speaker 2: shouldn't work with children or animals, but they don't say

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Speaker 1: Do you think they cancel each other out.

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Speaker 2: That yeah, it does. Actually it cancels each other out

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Speaker 2: and then makes it ten times worse.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're into self harm, it seems, and torture alright.

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Speaker 1: I'm just noting that down we all have our kinks.

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Speaker 1: So where do you get these animals from? What places

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Speaker 1: do you go? Who are these people? Tell me?

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Speaker 2: So where do I get the animals? Yeah, there's a

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Speaker 2: company that I work for down in Talkie and all

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Speaker 2: of the animals live there.

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Speaker 1: That's down my way. I live in July.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool, So just around the corner you've got crocodiles

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Speaker 2: and snakes and lizards.

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Speaker 1: Ah, so what animals do you? I know you've said it,

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Speaker 1: but Tom again, what animals?

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Speaker 2: So snakes, lizards, crocodiles, marsup mules, arthropods.

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Speaker 1: Are you trying to start an arc? Is that? Is that?

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Speaker 1: What happening? Are you are peering for judgment?

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Speaker 2: Day? I could be? I mean, have you seen the

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Speaker 1: So how did you get into this?

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Speaker 2: I started working with wildlife when I was seventeen years old,

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Speaker 2: so that was twenty two years ago. I started out

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Speaker 2: northern New South Wales, which is where I grew up. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then I was kind of volunteering as a snake

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Speaker 1: You volunteered that, he my boy break then.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am. Well, there was only two of us

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Speaker 1: How do you find out if they are venomous? You

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Speaker 1: just let them bite you and you go out.

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Speaker 2: It's not advised to do that, but if you want

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Speaker 1: That's how you can tell. That's how you can get

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Speaker 2: Oh, they'd be concealing something.

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Speaker 1: So you volunteered to catch snakes? Yeah, and like what

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Speaker 1: like relocate relegate them because in the horror movies of

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Speaker 2: That's pretty much what I do. And I volunteered because

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Speaker 2: if I say there's a charge, that people say, why

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Speaker 2: would I charge? You made a shovels free.

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Speaker 1: Okay, no, that's you definitely put a different spin on it,

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Speaker 2: Now, because at the same time I was doing all

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Speaker 2: that in my spare time, I was performing musical theater. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: cats because you like animals. No, because they have integrity cats.

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Speaker 2: And then the sort of job for a wildlife presenter,

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Speaker 2: and I went, what is that job?

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Speaker 2: Yeah they did what Yeah, I know, right. So I

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Speaker 2: theater and animals, Yeah, it's kind of the perfect mix.

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Speaker 2: So I applied and I got a job.

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Speaker 1: They probably looked in and said, oh, actually, this one

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Speaker 1: does have experience around animals, so tick. Whereas other people

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Speaker 1: brock up being like, Hello, here is a snake. It's

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Speaker 1: long and it feels funny. Everyone want to touch the snake.

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Speaker 1: Come and touch the snake. Okay, maybe not that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you would have to do a lot of research for

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Speaker 1: all this too, because you're also teaching conservation. Do you

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Speaker 1: sometimes just make things up about the animals? Oh?

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Speaker 2: All the time?

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Speaker 1: This is a platypus. It's got, it's got. It's a

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Speaker 1: flame thrower in there as well. Be careful, don't touch it.

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Speaker 2: I always tell them that I'm joking afterwards.

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Speaker 1: What do the animals do when they're not in schools?

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Speaker 2: When they're not in schools? Do they live their best life? Oh?

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Speaker 1: And you just go get in the car, love, We're

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Speaker 1: going to go see some.

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Speaker 2: Children, exactly, and you get paid for it. They get

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Speaker 2: I should say, her name was Gucci. That's why she

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Speaker 2: Yah.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the same noises. If only they knew, If.

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Speaker 2: My boss was doing a nighttime presentation for an award ceremony,

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Speaker 1: In the box? And I said, it's so nosy, I

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Speaker 1: What about the kids, surely there's some stories with kids

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Speaker 2: There's some pretty strange things that children say when you

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Speaker 1: Just got positive reinforcement. It's like, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: That shouldn't be as funny as it is. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: Thankfully, nothing in front of anyone. It's all been behind

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Speaker 1: For all of us. That's good.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, this crocodile had broken the filter in her

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Speaker 2: she grabbed my hand and then didn't pull me into

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Speaker 2: then luckily my foot hit her back and she spun

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Speaker 1: And you said they'd bite you. Is that fool like?

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Speaker 2: No, it's a chumping hole. The closing pressure on the

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Speaker 2: once they're shut, they're shut the way that they have

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Speaker 1: Then otherwise your arm's gonna be ripped off, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: I would have lost my hand for sure if I'd

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Speaker 2: as well, it makes perforation like the interlock. The interlock. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's so good, isn't it. It is, I'm amazing just

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Speaker 1: You just keep going back to the same hospital And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can you not? Yeah? So when I when I

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Speaker 1: And he's like show me yours and we're like whaw

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Speaker 2: No? Hell no. It's always a reminder of how bad

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Speaker 1: I mean it's one way to be punished, isn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: some people just lose shifts. Now you lose a limb.

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Speaker 1: So if you are a wildlife presenter, can you present

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Speaker 2: I can? I have brought a couple of things.

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Speaker 2: You can handle this yeah, this one. This one is

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Speaker 2: They're too heavy because they've got a really did you

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Speaker 2: bring me a girl? A really big bottom? You can

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Speaker 1: Will I break it? Oh? What if it flies towards me? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Be fun?

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Speaker 1: have you named this? This is tiny Tim? Okay? And

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Speaker 1: what did tiny Tim like to do? Pretend this is

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Speaker 2: Tiny Tim loves strolls along the sticks.

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Speaker 1: He loves a.

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Speaker 2: Good eating of sugar gum. It's his favorite. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: That's a lucky day for you. So many poos? No

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Speaker 2: genetic diversity, because otherwise if if if you get one clone,

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Speaker 1: Tiny Tina one No could tiny tim getting dragon become

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Speaker 2: You sure can?

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Speaker 1: You can have him back.

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Speaker 2: Now, I've got a venomous animal for you. It's a scorpion.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, from the Flinders Rangers. And it's that could

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Speaker 1: no I can. Oh no no no no no no

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Speaker 1: no no no no no no no. I guess she's

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Speaker 1: pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: I did bring a special torch with me to show

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Speaker 2: you something cool.

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Speaker 1: You want to flash the scorpion?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so the exoskeleton does something really weird with under

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Speaker 2: UV light. They glow in the dark.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, oh wow. We've just shone a UV

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Speaker 1: light on the scorpion and it is neon. It is glowing.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Why is that that second got of raves?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, they love a good rave.

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Speaker 1: Do do do do do do do do do Do

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Speaker 1: Do Do Do Do Scorpion Rave. So Darren isn't a candlemaker, No,

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Speaker 1: he is a wildlife presenter. Well, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: All I know is I want to go party with

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Speaker 1: some scorpions in Berlin. Hit the UV lights. Do Do Do?

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Speaker 3: Do?

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Speaker 1: Do? Give Ben listening to an iHeart Australian production concealed

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Speaker 1: with artsimone. Want to check out some creepy crawlees check

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Speaker 1: us out on the socials.