Geordie Williamson
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728 appearances
5 recordings
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard 21 Aug
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And the rangers at the park said.
Whatever you do, don't do this.
And being bloody minded, she did it anyway.
And uh the the rain began at the beginning of her paddle, the waters were rising, and she got out and was taken by a big saltwater crocodile.
Oh my goodness.
It took her between the legs, like literally up to her, you know, partway up her body, dragged her down into a
Death roll and did so three times and then inexplicably let her go.
And with grievous injuries that took months to recover from, she set out over a swampy, potentially flooded plains with with other crocs around and dragged herself for hours until a ranger somehow found her.
And she was taken to
Hospital and spent months getting skin grafts and recovering.
And where another, you know, person would probably just say, you know, kind of like, I'm so relieved to be here.
She turned this experience into a profound philosophical discussion.
Because what she remembered when she was taken by the crocodile was a sense of kind of human haughtur.
She's like, how dare you take me?
I'm not just prey.
And she realized that what she'd been through was a kind of profound humbling.
And what followed was um a philosophical essay in parts about being meat, what it was to be a human and to realize that you weren't ruling the world, that you were, in fact, food for a saltwater crocodile.
I loved the language.
I loved the lucidity of.
thought even in the face of of of a terrifying and traumatic experience, but the implications of this event are one in which she said, My entire worldview was shocked out of true.
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