60 - The Great Emu War
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This is one of the stranger chapters in Australia's military history. Matt talks about the time the army took on the second tallest bird in the world, the emu. 20,000 of them. It was quite a fight... but who wins?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to DoGoOn. My name is Dave Waniki and I'm here with Jess Perkins |
| 0:13.6 | and Matt Stewart for another conversation for the ages. |
| 0:19.6 | Oh, Talineau, and for the ages, we really did that song? |
| 0:26.2 | No, we explained. |
| 0:27.3 | That's a Paul Kelly song. I don't know if it's a Paul Kelly song or not a Paul Kelly song. |
| 0:31.9 | We like that. |
| 0:33.3 | Did I say conversation for the ages because I meant one of the worst. |
| 0:37.5 | I mean, Matt, contribute something, save this conversation. |
| 0:41.5 | Sorry. Hey, Dave, it's good to be here in back in the podcasting studio. |
| 0:45.3 | Jess and I just were at a music festival over the weekend, Maritath Music Festival. |
| 0:48.6 | You pulled out of it later, bought you a ticket and you held me hanging on for quite a while, |
| 0:54.6 | a few months, even though you've got quite a well-paying job and I'm just a lowly, shit-kicking |
| 1:01.2 | business man, Matt Whelan and Dylan, sure. |
| 1:03.4 | Sure. |
| 1:04.4 | But in the end, I mean, I'm a philanthropist. I give more than I take. |
| 1:09.1 | And I think the proof was in the pudding there with me offering to give you a ticket. |
| 1:13.6 | I mean, for cost price. |
| 1:14.8 | Obviously. |
| 1:15.8 | And you taking months of earning and earning, basically saying, please hold it for me or whatever |
| 1:22.1 | you said, maybe it wasn't those exact words. |
| 1:24.6 | And in the end, yeah, you're like, no, I called play, actually, or whatever. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah. And it was my first Maritath and you two had both been like, you've got to come |
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