Speaker 1: Get a bushy here and welcome to the most talked
Speaker 1: about podcast on the planet. Now this episode slight gear change,
Speaker 1: no world leaders today. Yeah, probably a good idea. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of you have been saying, Bushie, I'd love
Speaker 1: to visit Australia. However, there are too many things that
Speaker 1: can kill me, and you're right there are. However, they're
Speaker 1: not all bad. So today this bushy she's going out
Speaker 1: in the bush. Now. I know how to wrangle a one.
Speaker 1: I'd love serpent. But today I'm bringing a famous snake
Speaker 1: catcher called Step so we can hang out with the
Speaker 1: other snakes, you know, the friendly ones and the venomous bastards.
Speaker 2: So let's go hit the bush.
Speaker 1: Step steal it, snake catcher. You've been doing this for
Speaker 1: a long time. How long have you been wrestling snakes?
Speaker 1: I mean aside from the teenage years.
Speaker 3: Obviously, well we won't talk about that, but I've been
Speaker 3: doing it for around thirteen years here on the Sunny.
Speaker 1: Cost thirteen years. Yes, So how many snakes do you
Speaker 1: reckon you've had in your hands?
Speaker 3: I reckon, I reckon.
Speaker 4: I've probably had ten.
Speaker 1: Thousand thousand snakes.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's a lot. I'm well adversed with snakes.
Speaker 1: You'd have a lot in common with Bonnie Blue.
Speaker 3: Well, I probably have. I don't know if I've had
Speaker 3: as many snakes in twenty four hours as Bonnie Blue.
Speaker 1: No, maybe not.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's something I can aim for.
Speaker 1: Now. I'm going to run through a list of snakes,
Speaker 1: and I want you to tell me if they're friendly
Speaker 1: or if they're an asshole. So you just say friendly
Speaker 1: or asshole.
Speaker 4: We'll put that fvenomous.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yeah, all right, because.
Speaker 4: I don't think any snakes an asshole.
Speaker 1: They're an asshole if they buy you. All right, here's
Speaker 1: the list.
Speaker 4: Brown, asshole. But I think they're friendly.
Speaker 1: You're as bad as Larry Aander.
Speaker 3: I've got to politically correct here.
Speaker 1: I just say asshole, carpet piping friendly. Friendly.
Speaker 4: The most common snake.
Speaker 1: That we get green tree snake. Friendly, but not in
Speaker 1: South Africa.
Speaker 4: I think that's a different one. Oh, like a green mamba.
Speaker 1: Yeah they're bad. Yeah, assholes, they're the assholes, Mulga snake.
Speaker 3: They're venomous, So you could say.
Speaker 1: Asshole on what scale from one to ten? Are they assholes?
Speaker 3: Down the list? But the amount of venom they can
Speaker 3: inject all.
Speaker 1: Right, so they really pump it in. That's not nice?
Speaker 1: Is that? So you go to hospital? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, If you don't go to hospital, you're probably dead.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, do whip snake?
Speaker 3: No, they're pretty friendly. I've been bitten by whip snake.
Speaker 3: They are venomous, but they're terrified of us.
Speaker 4: Very hard to catch, yep, very hard to catch. If
Speaker 4: you try and catch a whip snake in this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck. Really, you've got to be fast like
Speaker 1: gout gout. Yeah, okay, is fast too, He's fucking fast.
Speaker 1: What about the bandy bandy snake?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Friendly, one of the coolest snakes around.
Speaker 1: I saw one of them once.
Speaker 4: Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It looked like a painting.
Speaker 3: Oh and they do a really cool display too, like
Speaker 3: a threat display.
Speaker 4: If I feel defensive.
Speaker 1: Well, he wasn't defensive. We were just chilling.
Speaker 4: He must have liked you.
Speaker 1: He did tell you what to make a nice belt, though.
Speaker 1: Can I say that? La la la la la la?
Speaker 1: All right, won't say that. What about a red belly
Speaker 1: black snake?
Speaker 4: I like red bellies. They're friendly.
Speaker 5: They're not fucking friendly. Stup, they're very very venomous. We're
Speaker 5: going to have like pull me tourists coming over and
Speaker 5: they're going to be like, oh, look at that pretty
Speaker 5: red belly black snake. STU said that they're friendly, so
Speaker 5: I'm going to give it a pat.
Speaker 1: Oh I fucked.
Speaker 3: We've got too many tourists over here. Or is that
Speaker 3: too political? Sorry, don't pat red bellies.
Speaker 1: Don't pat red belly? All right? The death adder? Are
Speaker 1: you going to tell me that the death adder? This
Speaker 1: is not a Tarot card reading where the death card
Speaker 1: is actually a rebirth death adder. Surely their name suggests
Speaker 1: what they are.
Speaker 3: They're a venomous snake, so there your words, not mine.
Speaker 6: An asshole, asshole, all right, A small eyed snake. No,
Speaker 6: like they're highly venomous too, okay, assholes, tigers, asshole but
Speaker 6: they're pretty out, they're really pretty.
Speaker 1: It's all right. I'm not going to go out and
Speaker 1: stomp on them.
Speaker 6: That'd be a bad I don't want people thinking snakes
Speaker 6: or assholes.
Speaker 1: No, because it's like sharks there. You know, they're only
Speaker 1: assholes if they oh, if they need to be, if
Speaker 1: the pointy end gets you.
Speaker 3: If you mess with a snake, yeah it'll be an asshole.
Speaker 3: But if you don't, they're friendly.
Speaker 1: They just slither away. Don't one kids, don't pat snakes.
Speaker 1: I want to keep it light, but I am fascinated.
Speaker 1: What's the worst death from a snake? Like, what's the
Speaker 1: worst way to go?
Speaker 4: I hope I never experience it.
Speaker 3: For starters, put that on the record, but.
Speaker 4: No, a few of my colleagues being bitten.
Speaker 3: But one story went along the lines of a colleague
Speaker 3: of bitten in the underarm by a coastal taiepan was
Speaker 3: handing it, handling it and obviously shot up in there. Now,
Speaker 3: when it comes to snake bite first day, that's where
Speaker 3: you don't want the venom. That's why the whole point
Speaker 3: of wrapping your arm is to stop it from getting
Speaker 3: to your lymph nose. But when it goes bang straight
Speaker 3: on the lymph nose, that's not a good scenario. So
Speaker 3: within minutes he's like vomiting, shitting himself. Oh, blood coming from.
Speaker 1: Everything, bleeds, doesn't it?
Speaker 3: Essentially yeah, depending on the snake and the species. But
Speaker 3: and then in and out of consciousness.
Speaker 1: That's fucked up. How long did that take?
Speaker 3: This all happened within like fifteen twenty minutes, and then
Speaker 3: they had to try and get him to the hospital,
Speaker 3: and thankfully survive.
Speaker 4: But it is.
Speaker 3: And like, the problem with snake bite and venom and
Speaker 3: being bitten is that it's not just you know, get
Speaker 3: through it, get the hospital, get any venom you're okay.
Speaker 3: You can affect you for the rest of your life,
Speaker 3: like your taste, your smell, your sight, feeling.
Speaker 1: He's got no taste in it outfits anymore? Does he
Speaker 1: wear stupid outfits? He does, That's what's happened.
Speaker 4: I feel sorry for him.
Speaker 1: That's bad. But how did he so we got bitten?
Speaker 1: He knew he was in a lot of trouble. So
Speaker 1: who did he call straight away?
Speaker 4: I think he had some mates with him.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's good, so they knew what.
Speaker 3: You never get bitten alone if you're going to get bitten.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of actresses have been told to do
Speaker 1: that as well. Don't go in on your own with
Speaker 1: a snake. Always have a witness. Did you hear about
Speaker 1: the baby snake? And he was talking to his dad snake?
Speaker 1: He said, hey, Dad, are we venomous? He's like, yeah, son,
Speaker 1: He's like, all right, are we really venomous? Yes, son,
Speaker 1: We're actually the most venomous snake in the world. He's like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, I bit my tongue. It's good, it's my dad, Joe.
Speaker 1: What else do you get called out to get out
Speaker 1: of houses? Like we all see the Bond movies where
Speaker 1: they put him in a pit with laced more monitors.
Speaker 1: Do we have those?
Speaker 3: Yes, we get those in houses as well. Usually they're
Speaker 3: in chicken coops though, ripping apart chickens.
Speaker 1: Oh that's lovely.
Speaker 3: Now, we all like chicken.
Speaker 1: You don't want to get bitten by one of those,
Speaker 1: do you know?
Speaker 3: I actually think they're more dangerous than a brown snake.
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 3: I call them the triple threat because you've got claws,
Speaker 3: you've got a tail, and they can tap.
Speaker 4: Do you got that's it? Very good at it?
Speaker 1: Now? The non bastard snakes because they bite.
Speaker 3: Two all snakes can bite.
Speaker 1: What does it feel like being bitten by a snake?
Speaker 1: Is it like a kitten, you know, or a puppy
Speaker 1: when they've got little shit?
Speaker 3: No, it's probably think of like getting a needle, right,
Speaker 3: you need to go give blood or something, but then.
Speaker 1: Times fifty fifty jabs at once.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bank, all right, it's not too bad. It hurts
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 1: You get called to get out snakes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: What else do you get called to get out of houses?
Speaker 3: So not neighbors. We don't deal with people and can't
Speaker 3: kick out x's or anything like that.
Speaker 1: All right, so Locky neels safe.
Speaker 4: Hey, my team's Geelong, so high five for that joke.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I've been caught out for spiders before.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, giant huntsman's and people's houses.
Speaker 1: They will pay you money to get a huntsman out
Speaker 1: of the house. Can we give our viewers listeners a
Speaker 1: lesson about huntsman's Can you please tell them in fact
Speaker 1: down the battle look at your camera, tell them that
Speaker 1: they are your friend.
Speaker 3: They are And I've had to do with my own
Speaker 3: brother who likes to kill huntsmen and it pisses me
Speaker 3: off every single time he does it, so I've told
Speaker 3: him not to. But they are friendly. They're not there
Speaker 3: to pick us up when we're sleeping and out and
Speaker 3: feed them, feed us to their family, and nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: And they eat the really dodgy ones, don't.
Speaker 3: They I think so? And they're eating all the insects
Speaker 3: and stuff. Some of you likes flies and shit like
Speaker 3: that in your house.
Speaker 1: When I get a huntsman in the house. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got a friend. I had one in the house.
Speaker 1: To remember what I called it. I think I called
Speaker 1: it Dave. And he hung out with us for months
Speaker 1: and we didn't have a single bug or a single
Speaker 1: red redhead. I don't know why I'm about to get
Speaker 1: the redheads today. You know what? He got rid of
Speaker 1: those two. They came in like thanks day, now, ste
Speaker 1: what's the weirdest thing you've had to get out of
Speaker 1: a house?
Speaker 3: So I got called once up to Montfille and the
Speaker 3: lady's like, got a death add I've got a death
Speaker 3: adder in the lound room. It's underneath the coffee table.
Speaker 3: Please come up and help it. I'm like, right, oh,
Speaker 3: shut all the doors. We'll get there as soon as
Speaker 3: we can.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: So we get there and this lady is like she's
Speaker 3: grabbing me. She's like pull me over towards the window,
Speaker 3: and she's like look through the window.
Speaker 4: There it is, there it is.
Speaker 3: And I'm like peering through and I can see this
Speaker 3: shadow underneath the coffee table.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, maybe there's a snake curlt up there.
Speaker 4: I go in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shit, you know what?
Speaker 4: It was a handbag.
Speaker 3: I'm not even joking.
Speaker 1: It's a dead snake. It's been pre skinned, and it
Speaker 1: says ermey.
Speaker 3: On it as you can as you can imagine her
Speaker 3: husband was staked.
Speaker 1: Now with your really venomous snakes, because you've got to
Speaker 1: release them somewhere, right, correct? Is there anyway, like, have
Speaker 1: you ever accepted any money to release it in someone's
Speaker 1: yard that you don't really like?
Speaker 3: We will often ask the person they're paying for a service, right,
Speaker 3: They've paid us to come out and relocate the snake.
Speaker 1: I like where this is going?
Speaker 3: And we can ask, hey, is there any neighbors you
Speaker 3: don't like?
Speaker 4: Is there any exes nearby?
Speaker 1: Have you been real?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, but I'll use it as a joke.
Speaker 3: We like to be comedic from time to time. And
Speaker 3: I'll be like, Hey, is there any neighbor you don't
Speaker 3: like around here?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, can you take it over there?
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm joking. They were dead.
Speaker 1: Serious, serious, yeah, because I was going to say, there's
Speaker 1: a chick called Carli used to pick on me on
Speaker 1: the bus in high school because I was still collecting
Speaker 1: barbies and I wouldn't mind a brown or a death
Speaker 1: add or some shit in the outside of laundry.
Speaker 3: There's certain government agencies and council officers.
Speaker 4: I've thought about it. Can I say that? And I
Speaker 4: probably can't.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Well, no, government's fair game. You can just go
Speaker 1: to the government. They get paid to put up with. Well,
Speaker 1: just us given them with enough.
Speaker 4: Snakes there anyway. I guess you don't want to over populate.
Speaker 1: No you don't, Parliament House, fuck trumpers. You say when
Speaker 1: you come across the snake, yes you stay really still right?
Speaker 4: One of the options? Yes?
Speaker 1: What are the other options.
Speaker 4: To move? To?
Speaker 3: Move to run away?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Opposite direction ideally not at the snake, no other way?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Zig zag?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you can run away? Yes, because I must
Speaker 1: admit a few times I've come across the brown, I
Speaker 1: have run in the opposite direction and created a brown
Speaker 1: of my own. That's good, thank you.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 1: They paid me the big bucks. Still, I'm not here
Speaker 1: for the educational purposes.
Speaker 4: No, I can see that.
Speaker 1: Now. There's an Ikea pillow case over there, and it's
Speaker 1: been moving the entire interview.
Speaker 4: Did you bring that?
Speaker 1: Now? I did not bring that. This is your pre
Speaker 1: prepared one. No, I don't know what I know there's
Speaker 1: a snake in it.
Speaker 3: Bring it over, Greg, Well, don't touch it there. I'm
Speaker 3: just kidding.
Speaker 1: I love it. You're fucking with Greg. So this here
Speaker 1: we go. So we have a snake in here. It
Speaker 1: can't bite through, can it can? If I put on
Speaker 1: my lap? Wait? Is it venomous? Our whole? Friendly?
Speaker 4: Friendly?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll put him on my lap. Now, don't you
Speaker 1: bite me?
Speaker 3: I think so? The heather said it was friendly.
Speaker 1: Now steal it.
Speaker 3: Yes, you've got to call out I did.
Speaker 1: Where are we going?
Speaker 4: We're going a bedroom. We're going to get what a
Speaker 4: python on the move, So we're going to probably going.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go catch some snakes. I'll grab the bag
Speaker 1: and the gear and I'll go and grab it by
Speaker 1: the neck and catch it with my cleavage. All right. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've been called out to catch snake that's been
Speaker 1: hanging out in the staffroom. We've scared the shit out
Speaker 1: of the shielders. Thank you. So I'm I'm the bag lady.
Speaker 1: Where is he? Oh man, he's in camouflage.
Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
Speaker 1: Have you got a ladder?
Speaker 3: Ladder?
Speaker 1: All right? So what's happened is for the podcast listeners
Speaker 1: is there's a fat carpet snake up in the apex
Speaker 1: of the roof. Normally you would squeeze him through the gap,
Speaker 1: but he's too fat, So we're going to have to
Speaker 1: poke his ass and get him to come out the
Speaker 1: other end where Stu will be the catcher with the back.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I need to not flash my nickers to
Speaker 1: the camera. There we go a little harder, all right,
Speaker 1: he's like.
Speaker 4: To get him moving.
Speaker 1: This is the prick of a job. Why do you
Speaker 1: do this? He does not want to let go stuck.
Speaker 1: It's getting the ladder. Nope, come on, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: Got a very strong tail.
Speaker 3: Yeah, their tails.
Speaker 1: He keeps trying to hook it on everything off. I
Speaker 1: go go go, oh, you go on out. Nice work, quick,
Speaker 1: let's go see it.
Speaker 4: How good?
Speaker 3: So it's quite proved it's unharmed, which is the main thing.
Speaker 4: We just had to be nice and gentle.
Speaker 1: With my gentle bonking great work, bushy.
Speaker 6: There we go.
Speaker 1: It's like something now you twisted, ye and then twist
Speaker 1: and then you go, fucking how good am I what
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 4: How good?
Speaker 1: There we go?
Speaker 4: Great work? How good? Did you see the difference between
Speaker 4: me and either Yeah you were rough, Get out of there, yeah,