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Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, There's Jerry the

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Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know, the Snake Edition, Snake Bliskin Edition,

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Speaker 1: oh Man, good character, especially if you know, like it

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Speaker 1: had to have been something of a joke to selected

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Speaker 1: Kurt Russell because he was I guess I don't know

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Speaker 1: whether that came before after the thing, do you. I

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Speaker 1: think the thing was first? Okay, so I guess it

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Speaker 1: wasn't quite a big of a joke. But think earlier

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Speaker 1: in his career, like Kurt Russell didn't even have friends.

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Speaker 1: He was like such a squeaky clean Walt Disney movie kid,

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Speaker 1: like all the all the normal kids hated him. Said yeah,

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Speaker 1: like he was just known as like this just can't

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Speaker 1: do anything wrong, like like squeaky clean kid. Well, that

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Speaker 1: was my first R rated movie. Was Escaped from New York. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: can you dig it? No? That was The Warriors. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I remember I called what it was on, like HBO

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Speaker 1: or something. It wasn't even in the theater, and I

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Speaker 1: called my mom to ask her if it was that's

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Speaker 1: how good of a boy that I was. You're like

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Speaker 1: Kurt Russell. Yeah, sure, I know you're by yourself because

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Speaker 1: you don't have any friends. Go ahead and watch that's funny. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: man alive. That's a good snake story. You know that

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with snakes per se. Oh I've

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Speaker 1: got a good snake story for later. Oh well, I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say lay it on est, but we'll wait. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm teasing that one. We'll wait patiently. All of you

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Speaker 1: who suffer from a little something called, oh video phobia,

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Speaker 1: you can go ahead and skip this one because it's

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Speaker 1: gonna creep you out. I'm not afraid of snakes, and

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Speaker 1: I'm still creeped out by some parts of this because

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get like down and dirty with snakes. Well,

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Speaker 1: here's my deal, and I think we should say this

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Speaker 1: as a public service. I get reaped out by snakes initially,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm like, Okay, it's just a snake. But um,

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Speaker 1: snakes are vilified and killed when they shouldn't be killed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because people are scared of them and that ain't cool.

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Speaker 1: Years and years ago and the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader,

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Speaker 1: where I learned ninety percent of the stuff that I know. Um,

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Speaker 1: I read about a study of the snakes, like people

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Speaker 1: took a fake snake and put it in the road

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Speaker 1: and then like hid behind some bushes and that's what

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Speaker 1: people did. And allegedly people would run over the snake

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Speaker 1: and then back up and run over it again. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: according to the well according to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

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Speaker 1: But um yeah, I think people go out of their

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Speaker 1: way to kill snakes. Yeah. I know camps on campers

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Speaker 1: who like that they're hiking will kill a snake if

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Speaker 1: they see it. Um bad campers. Yeah, that's not good,

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Speaker 1: especially considering only like five percent of snake species are

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Speaker 1: venomous and um, so it's pretty rare to come across

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Speaker 1: a venomous snake. Uh. There are some out there that

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Speaker 1: will hurt you pretty bad, and we'll talk about those. Um.

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Speaker 1: But for the most part, most snakes either kill their

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Speaker 1: prey by constricting or swallowing you whole while you're alive.

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Speaker 1: You're too big for most snakes to really take on,

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Speaker 1: so they're not gonna mess with you. Sure, but it

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Speaker 1: is there is a You can't really fault people necessarily,

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Speaker 1: although you and I both do for just killing snakes.

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Speaker 1: Wantonly and indiscriminately. Um, because the study after study has

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Speaker 1: found that we are really, there's no other explanation, evolutionarily

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Speaker 1: primed to fear and notice snakes in our environment. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you found that cool article. And I've seen this before

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Speaker 1: that um is unpopular science. Yeah, they've done studies that

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Speaker 1: showed that people are more apt because of we evolve

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Speaker 1: to not want to get killed by snakes, to see

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Speaker 1: snakes and like our peripheral visi and than almost anything else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even spiders, which people are creeped out by. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: and also spiders are deadly too, so it would make

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Speaker 1: sense that over time, the people who were best at

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Speaker 1: to pass on their genes, and so through natural selection,

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Speaker 1: that would be the case supposedly. Um, the same thing

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Speaker 1: happened with snakes. But we are even better at recognizing

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Speaker 1: snakes than spiders snake detection theory. Yeah. Pretty good band

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Speaker 1: name it is. It's been a while since we had

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Speaker 1: a good band name. It's definitely one of them. I

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Speaker 1: just saw that on T shirt and a marquee simultaneously.

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Speaker 1: That means that's a good band name. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to know more about that whole study. You can

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Speaker 1: read about I think it was in the Lantern in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. Or basically, it's like, yes, we

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Speaker 1: peripheral vision, and we are scared of snakes, and rightfully so, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, I feel like I'm primed when I'm camping

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Speaker 1: I'm never just like daydreaming and walking. I'm always looking

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Speaker 1: at the ground. And that's smart, man, because they will

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Speaker 1: lay right across the trail and that they they're not

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Speaker 1: looking out for you, so you stumble upon them, and

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Speaker 1: that's when an accident might happen. Yeah, the problem is

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Speaker 1: with snakes, you're looking at the ground. You better be

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Speaker 1: looking up to Like, if you're in the Amazon, a

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Speaker 1: lot of boa constrictors dangle from trees and then like

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Speaker 1: drop themselves down onto their prey, which includes monkeys, of

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Speaker 1: which you, my friend, are one's right, you know, So

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Speaker 1: if you had a boa constrictor that was feeling kind

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Speaker 1: of froggy, they might come at you. Or those flying

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Speaker 1: snakes that obviously cannot fly, but they glide down quite

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Speaker 1: a way is in Sri Lanka, right, Yeah, if you've

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Speaker 1: seen these videos, Um, they leap from a tree and

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Speaker 1: start squiggling, and then they flatten their body out and

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Speaker 1: they can go a long way from where they started,

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Speaker 1: and it's not straight down, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So let's just re read, rephrase all this, let's restay it.

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Speaker 1: You and I disagree with killing snakes indiscriminately. It's just wrong.

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Speaker 1: But there is a healthy and understandable preternatural human fear

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Speaker 1: of snakes, actually just natural human fear. Yea. Even Darwin

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Speaker 1: wrote about it. Oh yeah, he tried to do that test. Remember, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna jump when the snake jumps at me,

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Speaker 1: and he's like, keep jumping, and he's basically like it's

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Speaker 1: human instinct. Alright. So shall we start with snakes in

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Speaker 1: general in earnest if they've been around a lot longer

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Speaker 1: than we have. Yeah, there are twenty seven hundred known

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Speaker 1: species of this reptile, and um, one thing you'll find

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Speaker 1: in common with all of them is they all have

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Speaker 1: no limbs. That's something they can't wear a vest. I

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Speaker 1: can't wear vests because there's nowhere to put their thumbs right,

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Speaker 1: or there's no thumbs to put in the vest. No arms.

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Speaker 1: Oh but I thought you meant just like you gotta

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Speaker 1: have the thumbs in the vest too. Well, sure you gotta,

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Speaker 1: but I mean you have arms for to have the thumbs.

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Speaker 1: That's from pe big adventure. Oh see, I just trampled

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Speaker 1: all over that thing. Um. They are carnivores means they

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Speaker 1: It includes meets. I'm just a big monkey. And they're

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Speaker 1: cold blooded. They're ectothermic, which means their inner temperature varies, uh,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense, which is why the biggest snakes you're

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Speaker 1: which is where the phobia comes from, pobia, which is

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Speaker 1: the fear of snakes like serpentus better yes, orpentaphobias. Ways,

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Speaker 1: it just makes sense. Sure. Um. If you look at

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Speaker 1: The thing is, although they have like some the same

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Speaker 1: than usual unconsciously in this episode, but subconscious exactly. They

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Speaker 1: same way, but they're um adjusted slightly differently like snakes.

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Speaker 1: They don't have ears. Anybody who's ever looked at a

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Speaker 1: But they do have the ability to hear. They just

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Speaker 1: snake is eating that monkey? You know? They make that

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Speaker 1: we'll round out the senses with smell um. They have

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Speaker 1: not there to taste because they don't have a sense

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Speaker 1: But they do. They do flick their tongue, as anybody knows,

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Speaker 1: and it's one of the defining characteristics of snakes. But

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Speaker 1: organs called Jacobson's glands Jacobson's organs and um. The thing

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Speaker 1: I would just do him as a snake. The seed

422
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: Mine would have to be as like the Vito Corleone

423
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: is a snake because I can only do brand Over

424
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: through his movies. That's fine, go ahead, no no, no no, no,

425
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. Okay, Um make a man offler.

426
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: It couldn't refuse. That was definitely worth the weight. They

427
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: can be up to twelve inches in diameter. And you're

428
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: going to find these dudes in uh rivers in South America,

429
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 1: and they spend their time in the water because they're

430
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 1: so large. Uh that's the best way they can get around, right,

431
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: They're they're huge. Yeah, so they're again less resistance in

432
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: the water, so they've learned to be pretty good swimmers.

433
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: And they are quite the hunter. Um. They their eyes

434
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: and their nose are on the tops of their heads,

435
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: so very much like an alligator or crocodile. They can

436
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: be almost completely submerged but still keep an eye on

437
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: their prey. They're tough dudes. They're not poisonous. Their constrictors right, yeah.

438
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: I think they're related to BoA's. Yeah, they're related to

439
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: boas and they can they can hold their breath for

440
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: up to ten minutes if they do go underwater, which

441
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 1: is pretty crazy too. But um, what was the um

442
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 1: I even found that article the UM. It was an

443
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: article on smith sony and about the Titana Boa. Yeah,

444
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: this ancient Uh, I think it was after the dinosaurs, correct, Yeah,

445
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't that very heavy salad day time after when

446
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: all of the former prey of the dinosaurs were allowed

447
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: to get huge. One of the things that got huge

448
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: was the Titana Boa. It was about fifty six million

449
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: years ago. And there's a um a coal pit and

450
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: Columbia that is yielded just a trove of fossils from

451
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: this era, including the Titana Boa where it was discovered. Yeah,

452
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: and I think the remarkable thing about this one, aside

453
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: from its size, was that they were able to find

454
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: a snake skull, which is a really rare thing apparently

455
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: because when skulls, when snake dies, their skull bones just

456
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: sort of go away to the wind because they're in

457
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: so many little pieces exactly like a human skull is

458
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: basically two pieces your lower jaw and the rest of

459
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: your skull. Um with a snake skull and we'll get

460
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: into why. But there's a like you say, a bunch

461
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: of different pieces to them, and yeah, when when they died,

462
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: just disintegrates. There's snakes skull parts, but an intex snake skull.

463
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: It's rare, very rare. So then to discover an entirely new,

464
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: fifty six million year old species of giant snake with

465
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: an intext skull was a big deal. And they found

466
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: the Titana boa and they figured out that it grew

467
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: to about forty long, weighed about a ton. Wow, so

468
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: it was about as long as a school bust and

469
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: weighed as much as a rhinoceros does. Crazy, and uh,

470
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: it could eat gators, turtles, like everything. It's just it

471
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: was the king of this Colombian jungle back back in

472
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, I imagine it would ever wanted to. Yes,

473
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: that is I can't imagine. I mean, an anacon of

474
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: these days is impressive, right, but a forty foter that's

475
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: something else. I mean, it basically is what they were

476
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 1: predicting in the movie Anaconda unwaitingly just probably about forty

477
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: in a ton right in that movie? Yeah, really bad

478
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: c G. I Yeah, to make it all happen Uh, well,

479
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: let's talk about eating a little bit um. One of

480
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: the remarkable things about the snake is that it does

481
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: swallow its prey hole. And it can do this. And

482
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: everyone's seen the snake when they go to unhinge that jaw,

483
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: that is what they're doing. They have a very uh

484
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: specialized feature and it's called a quadrate bone. And the

485
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: upper jaw connects to the lower jaw with this, and

486
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: it can unhinge itself, and the rest of the skull

487
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: is connected by like muscle intending, so it's it can

488
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: get up to like a hundred and fifty degrees wide open, right,

489
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: And it's not just the upper jaw and the lower

490
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: jaw that can unhinge and get wider. I think, what

491
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: do you say a hundred fifty degrees? It also can

492
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: expand side to side. So like the bones that make

493
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: up the front of the snake's skull are like you said,

494
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: connected by bone or by muscle intending, so they can

495
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: stretch apart as well. So not only does it get

496
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: bigger vertically this, the whole mouth can get bigger horizontally

497
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: as well. And it can again, a snake can need

498
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: a whole rabbit. That's right, and how it does that

499
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: is and this is um how the article describes it.

500
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: It opens its mouth and begins to walk it's lower

501
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: jaw over the prey as its backward curving teeth grind

502
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: up the animal. You know, it just sort of sucks

503
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: it in. Right. It depends on the species of snake

504
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: whether it has bad akward curving teeth or or not.

505
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: But not venomous snakes do have the backward curving teeth

506
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: so that the prey can't get out. They can get in,

507
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: but they can't get out to check in, but they

508
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: don't check out. All along they are crushing um as

509
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,479
Speaker 1: the deeper goes in the digestive digestive track, crushing this

510
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: thing down um until eventually it's just broken down in

511
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: the nutrients, just like eating a regular meal exactly. And again,

512
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: it takes a lot more digestive juices to to make

513
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: this happen. So the snakes just producing this stuff over time.

514
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes venom yeah, you know, to subdue this

515
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: animal because of a rabbit. It's gonna be like I

516
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: don't want to go in that mouth. No, I'm going

517
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: to scratch your soft forets like you might get me.

518
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna take part of you down with me.

519
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: So that's why they have these um, wicked little things

520
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: called fangs, and um, they're in the upper jaw. And

521
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: venomous snakes have the two hallmark hollowed out fangs that

522
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: are just basically, uh, a delivery system, a sharp little

523
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: delivery system. Uh. And they have glands under each eye

524
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: called venom ducks, and that's where the good stuff comes from.

525
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: They just squeeze it through uh those little little things, right.

526
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: And supposedly the venom passes through other glands where more

527
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: chemicals are added to it and it becomes this amazing

528
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: specialized brew. Um. And apparently each snake species kind of

529
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: has its own signature death cocktail. But there are some

530
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: toxins that are found in just about all of them. Um,

531
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: there's neurotoxins breakdown your nervous system function, including things like breathing.

532
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: So that'll that'll stop your we'll stop your life eventually paralysis, right,

533
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: you don't even be able to move, which is why

534
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: it's a big one that helps them defeed, you know,

535
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, rabbits like alive, but you know,

536
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: has that look in its eye, yes, like I can't move.

537
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: What's going on? The time is near. I hate Tuesdays. Uh.

538
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: Cardiotoxins are gonna deteriorate the heart and basically say you're

539
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: done beating. UM, and then they have hemotoxins and that

540
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: will erupt your blood vessels and you're gonna bleed internally.

541
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: You know what else I've found it's pretty neat. So

542
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: that's Those are venomous snakes. Remember we talked about like

543
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: what's the most poisonous animal or venomous animal in the world.

544
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: We had an episode on that. Um, there are some

545
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: so venomous snake is something that produces its own poison.

546
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: There are some snakes that are technically poisonous because they

547
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: eat like poisonous tree frogs or something like that, and

548
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,959
Speaker 1: they collect the poison from the frogs and store it

549
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: and then they use it to catch Preyora's defense later on.

550
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: But they're not physically producing their own poison. They're collecting

551
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: it and deploying it. And they wouldn't have fangs either

552
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: no or else they wouldn't have fangs with the hollowed

553
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: out delivery system. Interesting. Uh. When they they do have fangs,

554
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: by the way they are, they fold backwards in the mouth.

555
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: Did you already say that. No, there's like pockets though

556
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: that like are in their gums, the roof of their mouth.

557
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: They're hard palate. Oh it's like a little holster. Okay, yeah,

558
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: because it's not. It just go right through the bottom

559
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: of their mouth and they look pretty funny. Yeah, they

560
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: would fang Holster another band name. I knew this is

561
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of band names. The venom can

562
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: also have UM. If you heard our blood episode, uh a,

563
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: glutenants and anticoagulants which are either going to make the

564
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: blood clot or thin out. Remember in our blood type

565
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: episode there was a glute nation was what happens when

566
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: you mix unlike blood not good? No, um, And like again,

567
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, this is just another addition to the cocktail.

568
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: Um that's added to the other stuff you know. Um.

569
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: And then if you want to die another way, you

570
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 1: could be constricted. Yeah, there are boas and anacondas and

571
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: they they wrap around you. Well, first they'll they'll get

572
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: you in their mouth so you're not moving. Then they'll

573
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: wrap around you and you finally exhale, and then they

574
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: say that was your last breath, my friend, So long sucker,

575
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna squeeze you so tight You're not gonna

576
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: be able to inhale ever again. Yeah, and it's not

577
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: just the lungs that they crushed. They also crushed the heart.

578
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: They squeeze so tight that the heart is prevented from

579
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: contracting and expanding. You ever had a boa constrictor like

580
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: on your arm, like friends bet or whatever? Yeah, I

581
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: remember the one that um when we were shooting. Oh yeah, yeah,

582
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: did did you pull that one? Yeah? I think yeah,

583
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: yeah it did. Once in college, I was at a

584
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: party and someone had a snake and I was, um,

585
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: had a few drinks. It was like, I'm gonna get

586
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: over my fearce snakes, and now is the time. And

587
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: he let the snake like you know, crawl around me

588
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: and wrap around my arm. And I was like all right,

589
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: this is awesome and slightly creeped out, but I was like,

590
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: all right, I can I can handle this. It wasn't

591
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: like you put a tcharanche along on me. No, I

592
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: could not handle that. That would be very freaky. Yeah.

593
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: All right, Well, after this message break, we are going

594
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about snake sex. Alright, you

595
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: ready to talk snake sex. I'm ready. Man, this is

596
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: the creepiest part to me. Oh no, it's not beautiful.

597
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: A female snake is the one who sends out the order. Um, hey,

598
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm ready to have some sex, right, So I'm gonna

599
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: be a pheromones pheromones, and I'm gonna leave a little

600
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: trail of pheromones everywhere I go today because today is

601
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: the day, all right. And the male snake picks up

602
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: that sent and it's like, I'm gonna follow this trail

603
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: until I catch up to this lovely lady at the

604
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: end of the trail. And then he finally catches up

605
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: to her. Apparently the lady snake is just going about

606
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: a normal business, but the male snake is like, well,

607
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing today and following the trail

608
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: every where he goes. Um. And when he does catch

609
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: up to her, he says, hey, how's it going, And

610
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: he does that by like bumping the back of her

611
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: head with his chin basically like hey, I think that's hey, yeah,

612
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: hey you yeah, pay attention to me, okay. And then

613
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: after that, after he's got her attention, um, he also

614
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: is like sliding over like back and forth, just basically

615
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: being a pest um. And finally, the lady snake, if

616
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: she likes the guy, she likes what she sees, she'll

617
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: be like, all right, fine and poop up goes the tail.

618
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: I wonder if a snake, female snake, ever sees a lizard,

619
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, man, if only it didn't have

620
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: like those arms and hands, what they could do? You know? Um,

621
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what. Snakes don't think like that,

622
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: do they. I don't know. All right, So she lifts

623
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: her tail and she said, I like you, I'm willing

624
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: and able. Um, let's do this. And so they wrap

625
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: their tails around each other and they sort of just

626
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: intertwined until their cloacas meet up. And that's where it

627
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: all happens, my friend, that's where it all happens. The

628
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: male snakes hemy peens, which is his reproductive organ, uh says,

629
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 1: here's some sperm that you got a hemmy, it's funny.

630
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, He delivers sperm through his hemmy peen. Why

631
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: is this so awkward? I don't know. So yes, the

632
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: hemmy peens delivers the sperm and the female becomes fertilizeday,

633
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: and now they can make baby snakes or lay eggs. Yeah,

634
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,959
Speaker 1: this is intus like some of them do both. Yeah,

635
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: and that that I thought that was unusual. It would

636
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: seem like, I don't know, in nature, usually don't have

637
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: one or the other, you know, or both. Yeah, I

638
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: mean like maybe like this kind of animal, like a

639
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: bird lays an egg, but a panda bear lays has

640
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: live young. Right, there aren't pan bears that can also

641
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: lay eggs or have live young. That just seems a

642
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: little too random. Different egg hatch would be about the

643
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: cutest thing that would break the internet. If a little

644
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: panda bear hatch from an egg it was like two pounds,

645
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: that would be pretty cute. Um. So if they have

646
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: live young, they can give birth to anywhere from one

647
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: to a hundred and fifty snakes, which is uh, you know,

648
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: might be some people's nightmare. Yeah. Like remember that part

649
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: in Indiana Jones and Tempily Doom not Raiders, No, it

650
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: was the they were at the feast at the maharaj

651
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: Is people and they bring out that snake and slice

652
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: it open all the alive. Oh yeah, yeah, man, they

653
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: make good snakes. I forgot because in Raiders the famous

654
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 1: asps um Hey that was a good uh sala was

655
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: that his name. I think so right. I don't know, man,

656
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get killed for that one. If it's not UM.

657
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: If they lay eggs, they can hatch them internally, hold

658
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: them internally until they hatch or give birth to the egg,

659
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: and then the egg will hatch UM. And like you said,

660
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 1: that's it's sort of the combination method. If they hold

661
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: the eggs internally UM, and they take care of their young,

662
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: but not really like forever. Like sometimes they'll even leave

663
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 1: the eggs before they hatch. Sometimes they'll stick around and

664
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Speaker 1: protect them for a little while. So it sort of depends.

665
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: It depends on the species. I guess the reason why

666
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: they would have so many different qualities in the same

667
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: like family, UM is that they've been around for like

668
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty million years. Yeah, and the variety

669
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: of their distribution all over the world. Yeah. So speaking

670
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,800
Speaker 1: of variety, like we said, just five percent of snakes

671
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: and poisonous, but the ones that are poisonous can be

672
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: really really poisonous. Yeah, just not just mildly poisonous, but

673
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: like really deadly poisonous. Well you mean venomous still are poisonous,

674
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: thank you? Yeah, I mean venomous you're absolutely right. Yeah.

675
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: I found a list of most venomous snakes um, and

676
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: lucky for us here in the US of A, in

677
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: Canada and Mexico, we only have the rattlesnake to contend with. Well,

678
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I thought we had like water moccasins

679
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: and copperas No, as far as the most venomous, like

680
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: a water moccasin bite, you'll be fine. Oh really, I

681
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: didn't know that. I thought it was like deadly. No. Well,

682
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean if you just like went back and watch TV, maybe,

683
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: but you go to the doctor. It's not like I'm

684
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: gonna die in thirty minutes, because it's all about what

685
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: it comes down to is how eddy the venom is?

686
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: Like I got bit by a watermark. But judge duty

687
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: is on what am I gonna do? Decisions, decision. I

688
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: gotta see this verdict Um, the Eastern diamond back is

689
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: the most venomous in North America. And that was the

690
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: one that I encountered. My snake story. When I was

691
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: a kid, we were looking at property with my parents

692
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: in the North Georgia Mountains and my brother and I

693
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 1: were running ahead and there was a rattlesnake, a big, big,

694
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: rattlesnake coiled and ready to go, and your brother just

695
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: pulled us six shooters shot it once in the head

696
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: and like toil is gun and put it back right now.

697
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: The old mountain man came in with a stick like

698
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: just from nowhere, like running behind us, and one jab

699
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 1: got the head. Geez. Yeah, it was scary man. And

700
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: looking back, I'm like, I wish you hadn't killed the snake,

701
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: but we were. We were four ft from this thing

702
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: and it was completely coiled with his head up like

703
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: he was ready to go. Yeah, he could have totally

704
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: gotten this. Uh. Number nine is the death adder in

705
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: Austra Eliot in New Guinea, and they kill other snakes.

706
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: But if you happen upon them, you will notice their

707
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: triangular shaped head, which is always a dead giveaway usually

708
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: that that's not a good snake or not again a

709
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: good snake, but not one you want to like to

710
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: play with. And by the way, Chuck, if you had

711
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: a um you encountered the four ft rattlesnake, you could

712
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: expect a striking distance of two thirds of his body

713
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: length is usually the rule of thumb for a rattlesnake.

714
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: We were probably close to striking distance then man, Yeah,

715
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: that's scary. Uh. We were out in the woods too.

716
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have been a pretty scene, you know. Um,

717
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: the old mountain man would have just had to put

718
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: you down immediately. Now he was just laid on your face.

719
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: He probably would have done the old suck it out

720
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: with his mouth and spit, which I think is not

721
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: the way to do it from what I understand. UM,

722
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:56,240
Speaker 1: vipers are next number eight. China, India, Southeast Asia, Central Asia,

723
00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: Middle East, very fast, very ill tempered. The Philippine cobra.

724
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: I didn't know this. Cobras generally aren't, um. I mean,

725
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: they're venomous, but their venom isn't among the most deadly,

726
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: like you could go watch TV for a little while. No,

727
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: probably not. But the Philippine cobra is the exception. Um.

728
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: They have the most deadly venom of all the cobras,

729
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: very narrow, toxic. There's the tiger snake. Yeah, uh, this

730
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: one can kill you within thirty minutes. Yeah, supposedly pretty quick.

731
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: And before there was such thing as anne vent and

732
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: tiger snakes killed at a rate of about six Also

733
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: in Australia. By the way, as you'll notice that as

734
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: a trend, and when we talked about the most venomous creatures,

735
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: Australia was always around. We have our black Mamma which

736
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: we talked about in Africa, very aggressive, very fast, and

737
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,399
Speaker 1: they can strike up to twelve times in a row

738
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 1: and a single bite is capable of killing anywhere between

739
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: ten and twenty five adults, very deadly. It's super deadly.

740
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: It's still not the deadliest though, is that Nope, there's

741
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: several more. Number four, the taipan Uh, also in Australia,

742
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: can kill twelve thousand guinea pigs um with a single bite.

743
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: That's like, that's what they compare calories too as well.

744
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: It's like eight guinea pigs where the calories um. The

745
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: blue k r a i t the blue crate malaysian

746
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: um and it is the most deadly of that species

747
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: in South Southeast Asian Indonesia. Fifty of the bites even

748
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: with anti ven and you will die. That is so scary.

749
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 1: That's super scary. That is a that is a deadly

750
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: deadly snake. Number two, the Eastern brown one fourteen thousand

751
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 1: of an ounce is enough to kill an adult human

752
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: and um, they live. The scary thing about them is

753
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: they live in Australia near a major population center. So

754
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: those are the ones I think that you can go

755
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: out and find like the second most deadly snake in

756
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: the world in your yard or like a bar or

757
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: something like that at work. Can you imagine that man?

758
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: And number one the inland taipe in or the fierce snake.

759
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: And this is another subspecies, but they put it on

760
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: the list because they just said it deserves to be there,

761
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: and um, it is the most toxic venom in in

762
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: the world. Hundred and ten milligrams of venom in one

763
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: bite is enough to kill about one human beings or

764
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: five million guinea picks. The good thing about this one, though,

765
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: is it's not super aggressive and you're not going to

766
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: see one very much. It's rare to even encounter one.

767
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: For that reason, they don't have any fatalities on record.

768
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: Oh really yeah on record? Uh? And what was that

769
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: list from? Was that I O nine or was it

770
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: a list verse? Let's verse lest verse put it together

771
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: for ut Man. Yeah, double check, though I think it's

772
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. I'd say just any of those ten um

773
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: avoiding the wild, don't kill him that unless you have to, right,

774
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: you know, but always hike with a flamethrower. Chucks, Have

775
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: you ever heard there's no snakes in Ireland? No? Is

776
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: that a saying? Oh? Yes? St. St Patrick supposedly drove

777
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: all the snakes out of Ireland. That's one of the

778
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: reasons he got so famous. He did not do that

779
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: because there are snakes in Ireland, of course, right, No, oh,

780
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 1: there really aren't. There are in like zoos and and

781
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: and in people's homes. But no, there's no snakes in

782
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,720
Speaker 1: the wild in Ireland. Seriously, what about England, Scotland and Wales.

783
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: I think that there may be, But Ireland, when snakes

784
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: were developing, was underwater and snakes never made it over there.

785
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: So there really aren't snakes in Ireland as far as

786
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: I can tell. But are there in Scotland and England?

787
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: I'm guessing yes, surely one has crossed the border. And

788
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean like the fact that there are some like

789
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: in zoos and people's homes mean that there eventually will

790
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: be because you know, like down in Florida, people would

791
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: like take pythons that they had as pets and just

792
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: release them in the everylades. And now that every lads

793
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: have a really large python population, a non named python population.

794
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: People are stupid and they didn't realize that that Python

795
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: was gonna get large exactly. Yeah, yep, go humans. Uh,

796
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: you got anything else? That's it, man, That's snakes. That's

797
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: all I got. You got anything else? All right? Well,

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