SYMHC Classics: Emu War of 1932

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We're revisiting the story of large numbers of emus making their way through Australia, severely damaging wheat farms. The military tried to help, but may have just made things worse.

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0:33.1	Hey, it's time for another Saturday classic,
0:35.2	where we dig into the back catalog and we reshare an older episode.
0:38.8	And today, that episode is the EMU War.
0:41.3	This is one of the topics that we continue to get requests for.
0:45.4	And while it's nice to be able to answer those emails with a wish that is already granted,
0:49.7	when we send the URL of that existing episode,
0:51.8	we thought we would spread the news far and wide.
0:54.2	That yes, there is an episode about the EMU War, I will also say,
0:58.4	that we know that in Australia, people say EMU as holly just did.
1:03.4	However, in the United States, many people say EMU as I just did.
1:07.7	Yeah, we got a lot of email about this fact when this episode originally came out.
1:12.9	Yeah, so just enjoy the birds and don't get too worried about how we pronounce it.
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