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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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A group.
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You go rock climbing for instance or skydive, whatever.
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You wander off hiking or whatever adventure that you wander off on.
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I think you’re taking a risk.
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I think you should stay where you are.
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Oh yeah.
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I’ve always been a huge advocate for you.
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Just stay where you are.
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Where you going?
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What are you doing?
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I know I married an adventurous wife who wants to do the lesson and I said listen.
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If you go friends that you can take with you.
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I don’t particularly feel like.
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I just enjoy the peace of being in a safe place.
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On top of it, if we have to factor in the fact that you’re putting other people’s life
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at risk by actually trying to do what you love and then the people that love you will
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then risk their lives to confine you or even people that don’t know you.
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The emergency services for instance.
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I think it’s a selfish thing to do.
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For me, this is my opinion.
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I think it’s a really selfish thing to do.
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For you to put other people’s lives in danger.
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You’re not considering other people’s lives.
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You’re being inconsiderate and selfish.
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That’s the way that I look at it.
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Thrills, seekers, adrenaline, junkies, they might see it differently.
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That’s the way that I see it.
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My opinion, I think, before you do anything like that, just think about other people’s lives
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that you be putting at risk.
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That’s just mine.
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This is my opinion.
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It’s a reasonable opinion, but I guess we would say that, as I say, it’s a free world in
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that sense.
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We can do what we want.
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Most things that we do, probably in life, even everyday life, have a certain element of
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risk attached to them.
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We’re quite happy to get into our car.
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When you think about it, we don’t cram ourselves in, but the car is very much designed
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in the shape of the human body.
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You can bend, you can sit, your legs go down and body up.
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In a way, it’s like getting into a spaceship, into a capsule, and anyone who’s a bit claustrophobic.
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If they think a bit like that, as you can’t suddenly stand up in your car, you’re very confined.
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Then we propel ourselves along these inordinate speeds and don’t even think about it.
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We see cars driving on a motorway.
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We don’t think, well, sometimes he’s someone whizzing by, but even at 70, nothing else seems
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to be too fast.
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You’d break down on the side of a motorway and just see how fast 70 miles an hour is.
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It’s like a bullet going past.
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We do that.
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Most people do that quite happily when they get in their car as a driver or passenger.
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We don’t really think, well, it’s the syndrome, it can’t happen to me, which probably
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is, in fact, all of us.
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We are prepared to take risks on a daily basis.
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It does probably risk in most things.
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I mean, statistically, I think it’s true to say that being in your own home, whether stairs
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and a bath and other things, scoring walks of electricity, can be more risky in terms
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of accidents that happen than being anywhere else.
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I think, although I understand what you said, the fact is we do put ourselves in.
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In calculated risk situations, not many of us would go for these other things.
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One case, which we may have touched on before, of a case of where a couple or a family really
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put themselves in a situation which endangered the lives of rescuers, was something in 2009,
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I think it was.
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It’s called the Nutty Putty incident.
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The Nutty Putty was a cave system in Utah in America.
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It’s quite a long story, so I won’t go into all of it.
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Basically, there’s a family of about five children, three boys, two girls.
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The boys met up in November 2009.
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They all went back to the family home in Utah for Thanksgiving.
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And two of the boys said, well, why don’t we all go and go down into the cave system, which
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they’d done as children in the Nutty Putty incident?
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There’d always been a bit of controversy around the system because there have been people
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who’ve got stuck, thankfully, retrieved the local authority there, the one stage, and
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the early 2000s closed it.
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Under a lot of pressure from Cavans, and you said it’s basically safe, they opened it again,
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but they said we’re going to charge a license fee and you need to show some degree of expertise
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at Cavans.
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So anyway, that’s how it was.
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So anyway, these fellows, they had grown up, John Jones.
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He was about 27, 28, I think.
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He was a medical student, and he and his younger brother, and I think two or three of the other
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siblings as well.
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They all went along to the cave and down.
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They went.
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We’re going to take a short break now.
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We’re back shortly.
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