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Speaker 1: This is jam nation with ch Oh. Look, there are

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Speaker 1: lots of things to be anxious about at the moment,

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Speaker 1: the Medibank hacking, climate change interest rates. Chances are if

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Speaker 1: you grew up watching TV in the seventies, Quicksand is

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Speaker 1: on your list of things you are very anxious about.

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Speaker 1: The good old days of Quicksand. You could not watch

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Speaker 1: a movie or a TV show that did not feature

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Speaker 1: Quicksand Gilligan's Island in particular, Skipper, what are you doing

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Speaker 1: in there? They are, Gillian Quicksam here? Can you reach me? No,

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Speaker 1: I can't reach you. You know what's happening? Huh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, they don't just stand there, I'll get some vines.

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Speaker 1: Stay where you are, yeah, save me, Hurria. And of

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Speaker 1: course the skipper drowned because Gilligan was incredibly incompetent. Well,

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Speaker 1: this was the thing. People were always caught in Quicksand.

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Speaker 1: Presumably the skipper survived to live another day, but you

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Speaker 1: could always tell someone, Usually a visitor was sucked into

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Speaker 1: the quicksand, because all that would be left would be

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Speaker 1: a hat yep on the top. So Quicksand is like

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Speaker 1: it was something that looked like the consistency of cold oatmeal,

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Speaker 1: and people would just suck into it, and the more

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Speaker 1: they moved, they just got sucked further down into it.

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Speaker 1: It was the terrifying, terrifying thing. So there's not a

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Speaker 1: quicksand epidemic on our door step. And that's what's interesting.

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Speaker 1: You would think how many people died or nearly died

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Speaker 1: in films and TV and Quicksand, you'd expect would be

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Speaker 1: seeing news in real life of quicksand tragedies. Well, an

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Speaker 1: Internet search for the number of deaths. And I just

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Speaker 1: did this internet search because I was talking to someone

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Speaker 1: about quicksand, and we said, where are the stories. You

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Speaker 1: don't find anything? Because is quicksand as dangerous as advertised.

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Speaker 1: The answer is no. Quicksand it's a sand that behaves

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Speaker 1: as a liquid because it's saturated with water. So it's

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Speaker 1: not a special kind of sand that's only found in

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Speaker 1: a jungle. It can be anywhere, and it can be

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Speaker 1: a nuisance. But basically, and this is what you need

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Speaker 1: to member scrub it off your list of anxieties. It's

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Speaker 1: basically impossible to die in quicksand, particularly the way it's

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Speaker 1: depicted in movies. Quicksand is denser than the human body.

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Speaker 1: People and animals can get stuck in it, but they

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Speaker 1: don't get sucked down to the bottom. They float on

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Speaker 1: the surface. So our legs might sink, but the torso,

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Speaker 1: which contains the lungs, is buoyant enough to stay out

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Speaker 1: of trouble. So you only go up to your waist.

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Speaker 1: And they say, if you do find yourself stuck in quicksand, well,

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Speaker 1: don't fall over, because that's where they'll be troubled. But

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Speaker 1: the best idea is to lean back so the weight

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Speaker 1: of your body is distributed over a wider area, and

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Speaker 1: don't move around too much because it will cause you

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Speaker 1: to sink. But if you're standing up, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to go lower than your waist. And I think the

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Speaker 1: trick here is don't wear a hat. If you can

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Speaker 1: avoid wearing a hat, you will not die, because only

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Speaker 1: people who are wearing hats seem to get sucked down

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Speaker 1: into quicksands. So Glene Baker, you watch out. That little

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Speaker 1: fair is just left on the top. He's the only

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Speaker 1: person I could think Coffee wears a hat. All the

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Speaker 1: people was worried Molly. I didn't want Molly to be

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Speaker 1: sucked into the quick sound Bacon, not necessarily, but he

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Speaker 1: needs a warning. Okay, clean, be quirky. It'd be quirky

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Speaker 1: just to see little Fez left behind and we know

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Speaker 1: instantly it was him. You got well, there gone, carry on,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. Well, I'll take that off my list. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to be worried about quicksand don't be