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Welcome back to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast.
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In case you’re just joining us, you’re listening to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast
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with Emma Hickins and Travel Gear.
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I don’t know whether they feel fear, I don’t think so, I think they’re not complex like a human.
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Whereas the little flyers, those tiny little black flyers, they’ve been researched
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and it does show that they make some sort of decisions just to where they’re going to go,
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what they’re not going to do and they experience fear.
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Which is quite interesting isn’t it?
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Because whenever you try and zap or swat something in your home,
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they very cleverly seem to avoid it, don’t they?
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It’s not nice to think, maybe they’re scared stiff of losing their existence.
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I don’t know, but again, it’s all to do with the same subject.
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Are all the creatures on the earth, our friends, we are okay, we’re the second most dominant creature
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but obviously humans have the upper hand on most things.
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And we could look at all sorts of the way animals are treated.
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We must be responsible for the deaths every year of millions of animals.
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But then most of that I guess is because we eat, most people, not everybody, but most people eat the animals.
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So again, we would have to say to ourselves, is that a reasonable thing to do for fellow life forms on our planet.
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So I guess we all grapple with these things from time to time.
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But the question in all of that is, do we think of these other little creatures
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and larger creatures, larger animals?
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Do we see them as our friends, which I guess overall we should do?
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Now coming back to that phrase, that expression,
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greater love has no one than this.
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Then someone lays down their life for another or for a friend as the original one says,
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fortunately our friendships with people don’t normally entail us risking our lives to help them.
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But looking a little bit more deeply into this, I looked at people who could claim to have that greater love.
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I was in mind my, yeah, now I was start with people who’ve done amazingly self-sacrificing things.
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Just because it’s a testimony to them really.
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First example, a man called Joseph Blankson in 2018, in a place in actually a Nigeria,
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called Rivers State Joseph Blankson.
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And in Nigeria, in 2018, 36-year-old Joseph Blankson, he died, while rescuing 13 passengers from a capsized boat,
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he saved them one by one, returning into the water each time until he succumbed to fatigue and drowned
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while attempting to save a 14th person.
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I mean, one amazing, one amazing love for a fellow human, humans he didn’t know necessarily.
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He was prepared to sacrifice his life.
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And I guess that really is the definition of friendship.
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The next one is a chap at bloke called Rick Raskola.
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And this was the 9/11 attacks in America.
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And his head of security for Morgan Stanley, which I think is a bank out there.
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He famously directed thousands of employees to safety during the 9/11 attacks,
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even going back into the collapsing world trade center to ensure others were out sacrificing his own life in the process.
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Again, what do things to do to keep going back?
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Most of us want to get away from danger, don’t we, whatever it may be,
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but to actually keep going back in to save people quite something.
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The next one is Jane Harrison.
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And in 1968, the P.O.A.C., which is now British Airways, had an engine fire.
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And this 22-year-old flight attendant, she stayed at her post to push passengers down escape shoes.
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She was awarded the Jord Cross for her sacrifices.
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Her body was found beside an elderly disabled passenger.
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She had stayed behind to help.
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I mean, that’s quite something as well, isn’t it?
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To know you’re going to die in the flames of an aeroplane.
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To save somebody who couldn’t get themselves out.
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And then there was Maximilian Colby in 1941.
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He was a Polish priest in Auschwitz.
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And he volunteered to die by starvation in place of a stranger,
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a fellow prisoner who had a family waiting for him, choosing to give his life to save another.
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I mean, that is, again, mind blowing, isn’t it, to save the place of somebody in those awful circumstances?
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And then another lady, headeth Kovell, a British nurse, working in occupied Belgium during World War I.
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She treated wounded soldiers from both sides.
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She lost her life by firing squad after running an underground network that helped over 200 soldiers escape to neutral territory.
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And then the last one on these, because these people are incredible in their bravery,
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was sadly another aeroplane incident accident in America in 1982 in Washington.
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There’s a film of this on YouTube, and it’s an air flora to flight and linesy.
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Basically, it took off in a snowstorm and the wings, although they’d been deiced.
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The time it took them to take off meant they’d ice.
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We’re going to take a short break now, we’re back shortly.
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