Christian.

Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Sometimes we take your stories about being country tough.

There's country tough and then there's only in Australia.

Only in Australia?

Can there be a new story like this?

This read out in a very nonchalant casual way at 5.30 a.m.,

which is what I came into the office, to see Carl Stefanovich,

barely getting his pulse rate up for this story,

like it was an end finally, only in Australia.

A Gold Coast man is counting his lucky stars this morning

after prying himself out of crocodile's jaws in far north

Queensland. I mean, that is such a scene. And it's not that big a deal, actually. We haven't got any

footage, you know. He's probably exaggerating it, to be honest. Has anyone got my coffee?

Marcus says he was out in the clear blue waters, but all of a sudden he felt like he was being attacked by a shark.

That's what he thought, but then it instead turned out to be a crock.

Bloody idiot. Come on, mate.

No, common mistake, Christian, up there.

That old classic.

What a fool.

He says, I was attacked from behind by a saltwater crocodile, which got its jaws around my head.

It continues.

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