WEBVTT - MINI: Bird Week

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Bird Week is about to begin. In fact, it is

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<v Speaker 1>beginning right now. Bird Week has come out of what

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<v Speaker 1>happened yesterday when Simone Lovely Listen called. Simone called the

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<v Speaker 1>show when we were talking about surprises gone wrong. She

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<v Speaker 1>was talking about her husband loves the wedge tailed eagle,

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful Australian eagle, bird of prey of the most in fact,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the most common bird of prey in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Really Yeah, And she spent a lot of time researching

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<v Speaker 1>getting a really nice print for a husband for his

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<v Speaker 1>birthday to surprise him. Cost of one thousand dollars. And

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<v Speaker 1>obviously if you've worked on such a gift, you're a

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<v Speaker 1>really excited thinking you've got the ultimate gift. It's really

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<v Speaker 1>it's really going to move somebody. It did move him

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<v Speaker 1>and then hurt to tears. It was the wrong eagle.

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<v Speaker 1>It wasn't the wedge it was the American bald eagle.

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<v Speaker 1>And they've drove it in today and Dave was telling

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<v Speaker 1>us how he was going to play along and just

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<v Speaker 1>be out, you know, because he's a nice guy. But

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<v Speaker 1>they knew that someone would come in and go, that's

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<v Speaker 1>not that, and then it would all come out and

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<v Speaker 1>why do you lie? I feel foolish, And then I said,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm guessing that it became one of those things where

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<v Speaker 1>you're both upset and you just don't ever talk about

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<v Speaker 1>that birthday. This print is now asked because I asked

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<v Speaker 1>someone whereas it actual went to the garage in its

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<v Speaker 1>original box. We have it. It is spectacular, majestic, it's huge,

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<v Speaker 1>It couldn't be bigger.

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<v Speaker 4>It's hold it up.

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<v Speaker 1>So lucky and particip Calyn have got it. Look at that, Pete.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you see that very impressive, gorgeous wowlow it down? Guys,

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<v Speaker 1>work safe here, guys, they're from the niece. Well done,

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<v Speaker 1>well done. That that's the price for the best bird

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<v Speaker 1>story we get this week. Look at that stunning. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to have to say, how do you hang

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<v Speaker 1>such a heavy frame? What you need?

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<v Speaker 4>You need to have really strong walls. You couldn't have

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<v Speaker 4>that plastic.

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<v Speaker 1>Not an Australian flimsy homes.

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<v Speaker 4>You need to be a brick.

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<v Speaker 1>That's going to bring someone's house down is beautiful. It

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<v Speaker 1>is absolutely stunning.

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<v Speaker 4>It's sort of skating over the water.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's about to swoop on a marlin or

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<v Speaker 1>a fish of some sort a mallet. Yes, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I know why I went for that one. You were

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<v Speaker 1>just going to move on, But no he didn't. He's

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<v Speaker 1>too smart. All right, lines are open? Now?

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<v Speaker 4>What a price? Huge?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how is it cost to put this

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<v Speaker 1>in the post? I don't know how the post guy

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<v Speaker 1>is going to fit that on that little scooter. He's

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<v Speaker 1>going to dragging it along with wheels on it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like the size of an advertising hoarding.

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<v Speaker 4>I think that would fit in mum's car. We can no, no.

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<v Speaker 1>It won't fit in a cart. I wanted to get

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<v Speaker 1>something different from a friend of mine who was getting married,

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<v Speaker 1>and I found out that you could hire an owl

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<v Speaker 1>with a handler to be a ring bearer. Oh cool.

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<v Speaker 1>So the best man at the front would have the

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<v Speaker 1>glove on, that big suede glove on. The owl would

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<v Speaker 1>fly over the congregation's heads land. He would then a

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<v Speaker 1>little pouch round its neck and take the ring off.

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<v Speaker 1>The owl flies back. That's classy, Oh my god, it

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<v Speaker 1>and so lovely idea an original wedding gift. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>negotiaing with this guy called Dave. This was his job,

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<v Speaker 1>and I said, you know, work's one of the many

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<v Speaker 1>poets are doing this. Is you know you can negotiaate

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<v Speaker 1>a discount for a cheeky plug on your radio show.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, don't need you plug. I'm booked out for

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<v Speaker 1>the next two years. So I had to play twelve

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<v Speaker 1>hundred bucks. Oh, and then I said to him, why

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<v Speaker 1>can you break that down? Why is it so much?

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<v Speaker 1>He goes, well, we need to stove tonight. I went,

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<v Speaker 1>the owl doesn't The owl does not need a hotel room.

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<v Speaker 1>Why am I paying for your hotel room? The owl

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<v Speaker 1>can stay outside in the car.

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<v Speaker 4>It doesn't he transport it's an how.

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<v Speaker 1>And then he goes just heer aware that there's no

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<v Speaker 1>guarantee it's going to fly through the church. I went,

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<v Speaker 1>but you get the money anyway. He goes, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we got to go to all the effort that so

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<v Speaker 1>I said, he guess, as have it happened before. We

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<v Speaker 1>had to wait once for half an hour. Went people

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<v Speaker 1>are not going to hold a wedding up. They're going

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<v Speaker 1>to go They're going to get very angry with the owl,

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<v Speaker 1>but more bought than me. Anyway, comes to the big service,

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<v Speaker 1>everyone is sat down, there's like two hundred people and

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<v Speaker 1>bride and groom were at the front and it's the

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<v Speaker 1>moment for the owl. The owl flies up into the

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<v Speaker 1>rafters of this beautiful couple hundred year old church in

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<v Speaker 1>England and stays there. People are now glaring at me.

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<v Speaker 1>Richie who's about to get married, is glaring at me.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, And then the owl does fly low over

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<v Speaker 1>everybody's heads. Everyone's cheering. The owl lands gets to ring

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<v Speaker 1>out and then you can have your photos taken afterwards.

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<v Speaker 4>With the olow.

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<v Speaker 1>Beautiful, beautiful howl and bird it was and it became

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<v Speaker 1>then it's like a talking point. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>you can do that hair? Can you hire owls for weddings?

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<v Speaker 4>We did what we did for the wedding in a week.

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<v Speaker 4>We hired a cocker two.

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<v Speaker 1>The same manky old domestic bird.

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<v Speaker 4>It's like the rap of the bird will. We had

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<v Speaker 4>a pet, Cocky growing up, did you yes? What his

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<v Speaker 4>name just Cocky? But it used to he used to.

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<v Speaker 5>Sit on the fence and pick the hairs out of

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<v Speaker 5>my dad's arm and it used to repeat everything that

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<v Speaker 5>Dad would say.

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<v Speaker 4>So he had even the blue language. Yes, even the.

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<v Speaker 5>Blue language at the top of his voice over the neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes.

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<v Speaker 1>There are so many beautiful bird sounds in the world

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<v Speaker 1>and here in Australia that is such a that's that

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<v Speaker 1>feels like on the sounds of Australia. This this is

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<v Speaker 1>the kookabar, which I love. This is the great, said

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<v Speaker 1>David ambral We can never replace him. Just you hear

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<v Speaker 1>this voice.

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<v Speaker 3>What bird has the most elaborate.

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<v Speaker 1>And the fact he's always whispering It's like he ain't

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<v Speaker 1>been out in the world for fifty years. He's in

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<v Speaker 1>a voice over booth in his house. Who's he whispering to?

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<v Speaker 1>He's not next to You're not next to the animals, now, Dave, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>come on man, you're in a voiceover booth.

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<v Speaker 3>What a bird has the most elaborate, the most complex,

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<v Speaker 3>the most beautiful song in the world and the superb Blair.

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<v Speaker 3>He also, in his attempt to out sing his rivals,

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<v Speaker 3>incorporates other sounds that he hears in the forest. That

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<v Speaker 3>was a camera shutter, It's incredible. Now a camera with

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<v Speaker 3>a motor drive, oh wow. And and now the sounds

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<v Speaker 3>of foresters and their chainsaws working nearby.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, it's actually sad, very suppressing.

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<v Speaker 1>Great Kenny, all right, we've got some stories. Let's go

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<v Speaker 1>for our first one. We got Rob, good morning.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh, good morning, Christian and team. So that's very interesting.

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<v Speaker 6>I live out in the Yarra Valley and there's a

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<v Speaker 6>tree nursery not far from me, and the production manager

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<v Speaker 6>there was getting into some trouble for leaving the irrigation

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<v Speaker 6>pump on overnight, disturbing the neighbors, and he was adamant

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<v Speaker 6>that he wasn't leaving it on, and they worked out

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<v Speaker 6>that it was indeed a superble iebird mimicking the sound

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<v Speaker 6>of the irrigation part.

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<v Speaker 4>You're kidding.

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<v Speaker 1>Just that is so good, Rob, brilliant story. Thanks the

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<v Speaker 1>corner mate, No problem. Let's go to Jamie. Now, morning Jamie.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, how you doing.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm good, Jamie, Welcome to the show.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I was at Melbourne Zoo when I was

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<v Speaker 2>only twelve and they were taking a photo of me

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<v Speaker 2>my Auntie with a pelican, and the pelican, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>I must have thought I was a fish and like

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<v Speaker 2>put me in its mouth, like fit over my head

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<v Speaker 2>and I needed the zoo keepers and everyone to try

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<v Speaker 2>and like.

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<v Speaker 1>Get you out there.

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<v Speaker 4>We got a boy down, boy down. What's it like

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<v Speaker 4>in there?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh it smells.

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<v Speaker 1>Jamie. Thank you very much, your story mate. Have a

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<v Speaker 1>good day there are thanks man, Cameron. Good morning, Cameron, Hey, Christian,

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<v Speaker 1>how are you going? The producers label up every caller

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<v Speaker 1>so as we're going through the cause I can quickly

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<v Speaker 1>glance at my monitor and see their names. For some reason,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know this agist. You've got the Bratton brackets forty.

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<v Speaker 5>Two forty two for me?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I Cameron, forty ten brackets there, Cameron, what's

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<v Speaker 1>your story?

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<v Speaker 5>I went to a bird phase when I was a

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<v Speaker 5>young kid, when I was a ten year old. So

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<v Speaker 5>my friend, a friend of the family, actually had homing pigeons,

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<v Speaker 5>and I took a bit of a shine to them.

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<v Speaker 5>So he decided he'd give me four of his duds,

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<v Speaker 5>which were ones that weren't real race winners, good race winners.

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<v Speaker 5>So my dad built me an avery and yeah, I

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<v Speaker 5>had these homing pigeons for a while, and they bred,

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<v Speaker 5>and they bread and named up with twenty or thirty

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<v Speaker 5>other things, and they used to I used to let

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<v Speaker 5>them out every afternoon. They'd fly around through you know,

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<v Speaker 5>ten to fifteen minutes and come back to the avery.

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<v Speaker 5>And as a young kid, I sort of grew out

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<v Speaker 5>of the face and got a bit sick of them.

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<v Speaker 5>And it wasn't real happy with me not looking after

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<v Speaker 5>him as best as I should.

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<v Speaker 6>He was doing all the work.

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<v Speaker 5>So he gathered them all up and he drove him

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<v Speaker 5>an hour and a half away to the Blue Mountains

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<v Speaker 5>and released them all and when he got.

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<v Speaker 4>Home, they were back in the apron.

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<v Speaker 5>So we had for another ten years after that kading.

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<v Speaker 1>You literally couldn't get rid of them.

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<v Speaker 2>You couldn't get.

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<v Speaker 1>Rid of that cost our honing pictures. They weren't that

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<v Speaker 1>dud after all.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right, Well he was. He didn't know much

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<v Speaker 2>about homing pigeons, So.

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<v Speaker 1>The coup is in the name homing pigeons. You could

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<v Speaker 1>have put them on a plane and gone to Barley.

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<v Speaker 1>They would have flown back. Incredible.

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<v Speaker 5>We bred some pretty good homing pigeons, considering they were duds.

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<v Speaker 5>They were hand me down.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because people compete with them, don't they. They're not

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<v Speaker 1>big competitions, that's right. Yeah, Yeah, all right, camera thanks

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<v Speaker 1>according him. Have a good day, great story well told

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<v Speaker 1>as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know we get summing right. The start of

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<v Speaker 1>Bird Week of Bird Stories Christian O'Connell SHO podcast