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Nov 4, 2026
JonHOST
which chocolate bar made with caramel and nougat and based on the american milky way was produced for the first time on the first of august in slough good old slough that is the mars bar mars is the answer the american founder of the company forest mars was only 28 years old when this all happened when it came out that's well done to him although he had had a start from his dad who was in the same business Number eight, the Australian Army undertook a failed so-called war against which species of nuisance animal in Campion, Western Australia? That is the emu.
JonHOST
This is the emu war.
JonHOST
They deployed machine guns to stop the birds damaging crops, but they found themselves outmaneuvered and withdrew defeated to much ridicule internationally and locally as well, I'm sure.
JonHOST
So yeah, emu is the answer for one point.
Christy KidgerinaHOST
Talk about tenacious, which is a fancy way of saying you don't give up easily.
Christy KidgerinaHOST
And for more determined emus, check out our shortcut to the Great Emu War.
Christy KidgerinaHOST
Turns out humans have quite a history of being given the runaround by these big birds.
Christy KidgerinaHOST
Time for the quiz.
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Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.
GonsHOST
According to the good old Canary Cry calendar, it is the beginning of the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Emu War in Australia in 1932.
GonsHOST
I don't know if you've ever looked into this before.
GonsHOST
I know you have, Basil, but those of you out there, if you want to look at a very interesting historical event, moment of emu pride go the forgotten war we
BasilHOST
call it in emu circles we call it the forgotten war a lot of good emus lost their lives in the great emu wars but they did rise again to be victorious to defeat the full mobilization of the australian military now i don't know what that says about either the emus or the australian military at the time um but it is uh it is a solemn day of remembrance and we will take exactly one second of a moment of silence for the fallen emus ready Okay, good.
BasilHOST
There we go.
BasilHOST
Thank you, everybody, for that moment of silence.
Justin MontemayorHOST
little bit of a Butterfinger double egg.
Justin MontemayorHOST
On this date in the year 1932, the Great Emu War begins in Australia.
Justin MontemayorHOST
We fought emus?
Sean BassHOST
And
Danny RantsHOST
Talk about Australian shit.
Danny RantsHOST
Have you ever heard of that Great Australian Emu War?
Clay TharleHOST
I have heard about this.
Clay TharleHOST
And...
Danny RantsHOST
He's doing it like under fucking the, like 1am in the morning.
Danny RantsHOST
It's like, brother, relax.
Danny RantsHOST
That emu war, I know they lost it, but there's actually a movie about it.
Danny RantsHOST
Is there? Yeah, it's got like heaps of people from the castle.
Christie KijurinaHOST
Thousands of hungry emus, soldiers armed with machine guns and a story that's become famous as the war Australia lost to birds.
Christie KijurinaHOST
This is your Swiss Kids Shortcut to the Great Emu War.
Christie KijurinaHOST
The podcast where we dive into the who, what, where, when, why and how of the wonderful world around us.
Christie KijurinaHOST
I'm Christy Kijerina.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Fellow emus, distinguished birds, it is with enormous pride and very small wings that I accept this victory.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Hang on, Bryce, what are you reading? I'm reading a victory speech.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Everyone keeps saying the emus won the great emu war, but where's their speech? The poor things never got their moment.
Bryce CorbettHOST
I thought, better late than never.
Jeff StampkaHOST
It was 1932 in Australia.
Jeff StampkaHOST
The Great Emu War broke out.
Jeff StampkaHOST
See, the emus were trying to take over Australia.
Jeff StampkaHOST
So the Australians, they got Major John B. Meredith.
Jeff StampkaHOST
Man, these guys are losing to a bunch of emus.
Jeff StampkaHOST
So what they did is they said, okay, you go regroup and all that.
Jeff StampkaHOST
So if you want to know how the regrouping takes place, on November 13th, I'll tell you how the rest of the EMU War of Australia takes place.
Erin EgnatzHOST
I'm very interested in this.
Bryce CorbettHOST
It's Monday, November 2.
Bryce CorbettHOST
On this day, back in 1932, the Great Emu War began in the wheat fields of Western Australia.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Wait, what? The Great Emu what? War, my friends, the Great Emu War.
Bryce CorbettHOST
A chapter in Australia's history that few people know about.
Bryce CorbettHOST
But once you've listened to tomorrow's Squiz Kids shortcut on this topic, you're going to wonder how it's the first time that it's crossed your radar.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Well, that's all we have time for.
Bryce CorbettHOST
Thanks for listening to Squiz Kids today.
Bryce CorbettHOST
We'll be back again tomorrow with a fantastic Squiz Kids shortcut on the Great Emu War.
OwenHOST
This episode is all about some absurdly long fences in Australia.
OwenHOST
And along the way, we're talking about wild rabbits, ferocious dingoes, and even an emu war.
OwenHOST
Also, the Kickstarter campaign for Mick's new book, which is currently called Tales, is now open.
OwenHOST
It runs from November 1st, 2026 to December 3rd.
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Mick SullivanHOST
Instead, soldiers did soldiery things.
Mick SullivanHOST
They declared war on the emus.
Mick SullivanHOST
Regiments of soldiers with weapons and jeeps left over from the war headed out to the infested farmlands of Western Australia because the emu war had begun.
Mick SullivanHOST
But emus are fast, and they don't think like normal pack animals.
Nathan RarereHOST
But what I want to do is give you a bit of a story time today of only one happening.
Nathan RarereHOST
This one happened in 1932 when members of the Royal Australian Artillery fired the opening shots in the Emu War.
Nathan RarereHOST
Why? Why? Well, following on from World War I, the Australian government gave land grants to roughly 5,000 returning veterans to establish farms in the Wheat Belt there of Western Australia, and the veterans were encouraged to grow wheat to help boost the economy.
Nathan RarereHOST
Brilliant.
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