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Speaker 1: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. It's Australia.

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Speaker 1: There must be millions of stories waiting to be heard.

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Speaker 1: There's no country that has more dangerous animals than Australia,

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Speaker 1: whether they're waiting for us in the sea or on

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Speaker 1: land or above us. Even the magpies here are vicious bastards,

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Speaker 1: you know, so chased by an animal. The reason I'm

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Speaker 1: doing this I've got a great email yesterday for one

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Speaker 1: of you. Christian. A friend of mine cycled around Australia

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Speaker 1: and during one of his stretches he was chased by

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Speaker 1: a dingo that wanted his ham sandwich. We were talking earlier,

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Speaker 1: my god, you don't see one of those outside of

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Speaker 1: Make sure you take the toothpicket so we want your

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Speaker 1: stories of animal if you've been changed by an animals

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Speaker 1: thirteen fifty five twenty two. In between all the fun lockdowns,

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Speaker 1: when there was like a brief respite. Me and the

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Speaker 1: family went over to Hobart and we hardly can't Hobart

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Speaker 1: One of the handlers, you know, my wife said, oh,

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Speaker 1: We're English, we've never seen a one bat. He goes,

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Speaker 3: You were it.

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I need it pursue me.

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Speaker 1: It bites my ass, and I mean a real like

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Speaker 4: When you say you're going to show us there with your.

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Speaker 1: No no, we've had those before. One of my one

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Speaker 4: I was chased by animals every day. Christian.

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Speaker 5: We had this ram called Bruce, and Bruce was a

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Speaker 5: Well no, he was in this house paddic and like

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Speaker 4: Another time he knocked my grandfather into a water trough.

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Speaker 4: Like the stories I could tell you.

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Speaker 1: It's of course he would be called Bruce. It's Australia.

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell shot podcast. Christian has a great wildlife part

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Speaker 1: just near warnable called warnable wildlife encounters where you can

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Speaker 1: actually hold a one. Bat dies, never happening again, form

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Speaker 1: me whites wombats, never doing it again. All right, we're

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Speaker 1: looking for your stories of being chased by animals. Christian

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Speaker 1: As kids, we had a family picnic gate crashed by

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Speaker 1: a rampant emu. Rampant em The emu took a big

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Speaker 1: beak shaped bite out of my vegemite sandwich. Who doesn't

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Speaker 1: Out near the big parks. Now you talk to you

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Speaker 1: st it's the triveway to throw the kangaroo. Kangaro was

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Speaker 1: unfazed Christian and then grabbed her car keys and start

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Speaker 1: It's not a camaro.

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Speaker 1: Wait whoa reverse from us? Oh wow, Christian. I walk

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Speaker 1: Daddy Duck has decided on far too. They are vicious

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Speaker 1: a little things, aren't they can they move surprisingly quickly

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Speaker 1: with a little waddle. Yes? Do you think? Were you

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Speaker 1: bad to get a load of animals together? Put them

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Dale, Welcome to a show. So an animal

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Speaker 2: Actually it was my grandma and we were at a

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Speaker 2: Yes, you went to her and his use tastes running

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Speaker 1: Oh no, Nana on the loose, Nana on the run,

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Speaker 1: Nana on the run. This is another game we could

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Speaker 1: play for cash. How long yeh know, how long before

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Speaker 1: the em you gets the biscuits from Nana's head.

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Speaker 2: Well he just ended up tacking the in and the

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Speaker 1: for in cases the biscuits on your head. All right, Dale,

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Speaker 1: Have a good day. Same to you, Wayne, Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Same to you. Sounds a bit lame, didn't it.

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Speaker 1: Same to you what you just said. You wouldn't put

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Speaker 1: that in a card. Send you having birthday? Same to you. Wayne,

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Speaker 3: Now come on in Wayne, I'm on in Christen in time.

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Speaker 1: Same to you, okay.

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Speaker 3: Whilst northling in Nisberg in South Australia, I was just

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Speaker 3: driving down looking at the fish and there was this

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Speaker 3: beautiful little pufferfish there, so I thought I'd just go

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Speaker 3: down a bit closer. The next minute it just turned

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Speaker 1: Not sho I want six inch puffer fish?

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Speaker 3: I absolutely panny which inch fish? I shouted, swimming as

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Speaker 3: fish with his teeth going up and down, coming through

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Speaker 1: Come on, what's it going to nibble? You take like

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Speaker 1: a year to nibble a weight your foot and I'd

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Speaker 1: like giant balloons.

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Speaker 4: Like how fast was it swilling?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So all my friends for the rest of the

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Speaker 3: weekend called me puffa.

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Speaker 1: God of course. Do you know what, Wayne, you give

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Speaker 1: your nickname Puffer? This is how the best nicknames are

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Speaker 1: born out those stories, aren't they? Wing Wayne, great story, Puffa.

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