Saving The Oenpelli Python W/Gavin Bedford
Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min · 14 segments
In episode # 616 we are talking with Gavin Bedford about the next stages of his oenpelli project. **MPR Network Socials** FB…
Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min · 14 segments
In episode # 616 we are talking with Gavin Bedford about the next stages of his oenpelli project. **MPR Network Socials** FB…
Gavin BedfordGuest
Keith McPeakHost
Owen McIntyreHostEric BurkeHost
that-... video you sent me a while back of you releasing some animals, that actually really choked me up because it was very, you had the, the land, the people from the land there, and they were doing that ceremonial thing.
And it, and it just really got to me, and I thought that was, like, very inspiring.
Whether those animals survive or not, I thought it was very inspiring just to do it.
Um, and, and the Owen pelly, just from the little bit that I know of them, seems like such a specialized animal for what it does that what you're trying to do is even harder than an animal that is more adaptable to an environment of different changes.
The Owen pelly just seems like an animal to me that is so specialized that you have to recreate all those items you've been talking about in order for that animal to have a chance to survive in the wild.
I, look, I, I flippantly went over it as I, as I spoke, but I gotta tell you, it, it, it got to me as well.
Uh, you know, even now, uh, I've got goosebumps because, um, the two guys there, Bob Namunjia, who's a world-renowned artist by the, by, by the, uh [laughs], by the way, a- and, uh, Joey Nandjumira, who is, um, up with David Gulpilil as one of the greatest, uh, performers as well, you know.
So those two guys, um, who are late age, they remember narren from when they were kids, and for them to come out with me was-
They could've gone, "Yeah, yeah, you, you just put it," but they needed to be there for their own-
that-... video you sent me a while back of you releasing some animals, that actually really choked me up because it was very, you had the, the land, the people from the land there, and they were doing that ceremonial thing.
And it, and it just really got to me, and I thought that was, like, very inspiring.
Whether those animals survive or not, I thought it was very inspiring just to do it.
Um, and, and the Owen pelly, just from the little bit that I know of them, seems like such a specialized animal for what it does that what you're trying to do is even harder than an animal that is more adaptable to an environment of different changes.
The Owen pelly just seems like an animal to me that is so specialized that you have to recreate all those items you've been talking about in order for that animal to have a chance to survive in the wild.
I, look, I, I flippantly went over it as I, as I spoke, but I gotta tell you, it, it, it got to me as well.
Uh, you know, even now, uh, I've got goosebumps because, um, the two guys there, Bob Namunjia, who's a world-renowned artist by the, by, by the, uh [laughs], by the way, a- and, uh, Joey Nandjumira, who is, um, up with David Gulpilil as one of the greatest, uh, performers as well, you know.
So those two guys, um, who are late age, they remember narren from when they were kids, and for them to come out with me was-
They could've gone, "Yeah, yeah, you, you just put it," but they needed to be there for their own-
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