If you love history, true crime, or storytelling — or if you're just looking for something to listen to on a long drive or drift off to sleep — this one is for you.

In 1932, the Australian government deployed soldiers and machine guns to the Western Australian outback to deal with a crisis threatening the livelihoods of desperate farmers. The enemy: twenty thousand emus. What followed was one of the most absurd military operations in recorded history — and the emus won, decisively and without any apparent awareness that they had done so.

Host Shawn Spainhour takes you into the full story: the First World War veterans who had been given land by a grateful government and then abandoned to the grinding economics of the Great Depression, the annual emu migration that had been crossing that same land for millions of years before anyone pla ...