for the emu war even as he specifically never brought it up again there are many officials and experts who can't bear to be reminded of some of their more ambitious efforts at emu destruction wrote sydney's sunday herald years later and sure it's embarrassing to be shown up by a bunch of emus but maybe it's more embarrassing to get so worked up about it that you try to drive an entire species to near extinction with high caliber automatic weapons or was the most embarrassing thing of all that it wasn't enough the emus returned time and time again to campion and wagolan their feathers laden with lead but figuratively unruffled and when the farmers petitioned the government for another emu war the answer this time was no not a problem the farmer said what if we just dropped bombs on them instead you know like from a plane again a hard no unwarranted was the word they used so in the end nobody got what they wanted by supporting the emu war george pierce had hoped to quell a secession movement in the state of western australia but in NUMBER_TOKEN the state went ahead and voted for it anyway only to be told by the united kingdom that secession was illegal and shortly thereafter western australia voted pierce out of his senate seat and in just a few decades neglected by central government the towns of campion and wagolan withered up and died campion today is a ghost town no wheat no farmers no soldiers nothing we'll accept maybe you'll see an emu or two a little slower now you know a little grayer just pecking and peeing at the lone desert sands where there was once a town one can only imagine a single thought crossing their bird brains heck around and find out but don't worry fellow human just because the birds won the emu war doesn't mean we're any lower on the food chain which i was just reminded of when i took a look at the delectable dishes from our friends at hellofresh too soon you know i'm sorry if i sound like a broken record at this point but i love that hellofresh sponsors our shows because they've been saving me time and keeping me way less hangry for ages now all while eliminating tedious trips to the grocery store and stressful meal planning i get everything i need to prepare delicious meals all delivered to my door and i am eating in a half hour or less it's like the perfect effort to ease ratio this week i was pumped to cook and try their pork bulgogi bowls not just because that's fun to say and i gotta tell you they were awesome plus now that zoey and i basically have weaseled our way into a standing invite for second dinner over at jeff's we got him to permanently up his plan to include more servings which this time around was the special sauce house burgers that's a win you know technically i think it's thirds at this point but i digress tastiness aside another thing that keeps me feeling great about hello fresh is their continued work on the sustainability front ingredients are pre-portioned which means less food waste and the carbon footprint of their service is actually NUMBER_TOKEN smaller than that of meals made from
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN but don't worry fellow human just because the birds won the emu war doesn't mean we're any lower on the food chain which i was just reminded of when i took a look at the delectable dishes from our friends at hellofresh too soon you know i'm sorry if i sound like a broken record at this point but i love that hellofresh sponsors our shows because they've been saving me time and keeping me way less hangry for ages now all while eliminating tedious trips to the grocery store and stressful meal planning i get everything i need to prepare delicious meals all delivered to my door and i am eating in a half hour or less it's like the perfect effort to ease ratio this week i was pumped to cook and try their pork bulgogi bowls not just because that's fun to say and i gotta tell you they were awesome plus now that zoey and i basically have weaseled our way into a standing invite for second dinner over at jeff's we got him to permanently up his plan to include more servings which this time around was the special sauce house burgers that's a win you know technically i think it's thirds at this point but i digress tastiness aside another thing that keeps me feeling great about hello fresh is their continued work on the sustainability front ingredients are pre-portioned which means less food waste and the carbon footprint of their service is actually NUMBER_TOKEN smaller than that of meals made from END_SPONSOR_TOKEN