Nick Crocker
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748 appearances
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Jan 2023
Nick Crocker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's just...
One of the great tragedies of my life that Scott died in the way he did.
So it was a couple of years.
And then while I was in the US, I formed another group.
And that was awesome while it lasted.
But again, I moved home.
Everyone had kids.
It just started to fade.
And yeah, so now I search again.
There's a John Donne poem and the line is, Elephants, nature's truly harmless great thing.
And it was just this idea of in the pursuit of greatness, you can cause so much harm to the people around you.
And I just love the concept of the elephant becoming, the elephant is one of the world's great animals, but in a harmless way.
So it was this idea of finding a different path.
to greatness where, you know, I think pursuit of greatness is selfish on some level, but minimizing the impact you have in a negative way on those around you, I think is the right way to pursue that.
Although, you know, I don't think I've achieved greatness, so what would I know?
It may be that greatness actually requires harm, but that was the concept.
It was a line from a John Donne poem and it just stuck.
Yeah, it was the elephants, that group.
So, I was a journalist.
I had a column in the Sunday Mail, which was Brisbane's big Sunday paper, like the Herald Sun of Melbourne.
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