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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 3: Over the weekend, I was talking about song Wow Friday show.

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Speaker 3: I begged my wife to go on a tree pilgrimage

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Speaker 3: with me. We're really into trees at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: I'd heard about a beautiful Aida tree, a mountain ash

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Speaker 3: tree for tree fans listening around the world right now.

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Speaker 3: And it was about two and a half hour dry

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Speaker 3: from a house. But also I meant we could go

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Speaker 3: on explore Victoria and see, I've never been to a

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Speaker 3: Warburton before.

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Speaker 4: Beautiful, beautiful, and I saw you went to the Redwood

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Speaker 4: Secor at Warburton as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's stunning there, absolutely stunning. And so

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Speaker 3: the big thing, the main event was we're going to

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Speaker 3: this Aida tree. So after two hours we pull up

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Speaker 3: and there's a sign and then we say that it's

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Speaker 3: about twenty five minutes on a dirt track. Okay, And

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Speaker 3: you don't get a lot of these where we're from

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Speaker 3: in the UK. You have tarmac, there are roads. You

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Speaker 3: don't go down a dirt track. And my wife goes,

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Speaker 3: oh a bit spooky here, Well, they can't move the

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Speaker 3: tree in the middle of the road. It's nature, you know,

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Speaker 3: we it's good on a dirt track. You know, we're

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Speaker 3: in a clugar. It's the car. Be all right, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's twenty five minutes. We're we're driving.

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Speaker 4: But couldn't they build one of those travel laders at

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Speaker 4: the airport where the tree is there.

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Speaker 3: A gift shop there. We get there and then we

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Speaker 3: see that both of us have got no phone service. Okay,

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Speaker 3: because we're out in nature. This starts spooking my wife.

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Speaker 3: She's like, oh, you know when someone says that, you

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Speaker 3: know it's in the tree. We've driven for two hours

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Speaker 3: and then I suddenly feel like this is what would

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Speaker 3: be said on the documentary. And when they got there

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Speaker 3: they had no phone service, but Christian O'Connell decided that

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Speaker 3: they'd driven there they should carry on. My wife starts,

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Speaker 3: we've got no phone service. What if the kids needs us?

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Speaker 3: And went, well, if they if they need any need

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Speaker 3: an emergency, we're two hours away anywhere, and they called

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Speaker 3: triple zero. I said, you know, we'll be all right.

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Speaker 3: We're in the car. Then it's just a forty minute.

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Speaker 3: What she was on I got these trees everywhere is damn.

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Speaker 3: This brings out the snakes.

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Speaker 4: The damn trees bring out the snakes. I thought the

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Speaker 4: sunbury out of the snakes.

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Speaker 3: She was then terrified that when we got there near

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Speaker 3: like a lamp bush. Because the snakes now they're coming cavin.

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Speaker 3: They comment, they're English as well, fresh English blood. I

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Speaker 3: haven't been an Englishman in years.

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Speaker 4: They get the high vantage point.

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Speaker 3: They smell us, Oh smelling from here with his after shave.

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Speaker 3: Oh fancy. So my wife goes, oh, if you do

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Speaker 3: get bitten or anything like that, I've got a snake

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Speaker 3: kit in the car now, And I went, I did

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Speaker 3: not know.

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Speaker 4: This, really, what is it like anti venoms?

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Speaker 3: You would think, would you from the snake bike kitch?

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Speaker 3: You would think, because that's what you need is anti venoms.

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Speaker 3: I opened it up. It was a lone solitary bandage

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Speaker 3: called snake bike bandage. And I'm thinking, basically, if I

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Speaker 3: get bitten by a snake, I'm putting that round my

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Speaker 3: neck and just taking myself out. That's the only good

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Speaker 3: that that is gonna be. What's that gonna do when

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Speaker 3: there's poison in my bloodstream? Quick bandage around this and

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Speaker 3: I'll be as good as Girl Dumming.

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Speaker 4: If anything is just keeping the poison in there.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so obviously we turn the car. Well, I didn't

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Speaker 3: get to see the agent.

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Speaker 4: You didn't even get out of the car.

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Speaker 3: Five hour round trip. I haven't seen the Aida Tree.

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Speaker 4: What a show.

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Speaker 3: All I saw was a bandage had a lovely ludgo

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Speaker 3: at lunch out there and a pint. But that was it.

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Speaker 3: We went back home. The kids were like, when I

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Speaker 3: was the Aia Tree, when we didn't, you must do

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Speaker 3: worry about being bitten snakes.

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Speaker 4: No one really gets there.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I said. Look, we've been here almost

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Speaker 3: four years. I've not met anyone who's been bitten by

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Speaker 3: I just asked the eight people that are working on

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Speaker 3: the show right now. None of you, luckily have been

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Speaker 4: Snake seeing a bunch of snakes. But they try and

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Speaker 4: stay out of your way. They'll see you today and

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Speaker 4: they'll get out of here.

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Speaker 3: Try and stay out of your way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're as scared of you as you are of them.

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Speaker 4: Even more scared.

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Speaker 3: Now. My wife told me, if you're walking along the

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Speaker 3: person in the front is the safest because suddenly the

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Speaker 3: gone past, and the next person go, oh, there they are.

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Speaker 4: No, they're not trying to Life has a lot.

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Speaker 3: Of made up bs about snakes. As I've been married

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Speaker 3: to Joe Rogan Neil Young, it's not going to like it.

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Speaker 3: You're splaining snake misinformation and lies this morning calling how

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Speaker 3: have you been bitten by a snake? Because English people

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Speaker 3: just convinced that you've all been bit by snakes and

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Speaker 3: they're everywhere. They're in like duney stilet, snakes are everywhere.

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Speaker 3: I've only seen one in almost four years of living it.

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Speaker 4: I think you've gotta be walking through long grass and

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Speaker 4: spook it. I don't be fair.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of long grass.

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Speaker 4: What about the dirt track?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but then it came to a stop and you

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Speaker 3: had a forty minute walk to get to the Zada tree.

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Speaker 4: I think you would have been safe.

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Speaker 3: I got that bandage. The Christian O'Connell show podcast, What

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Speaker 3: would you do if you were out the mount and

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Speaker 3: you got bitten by a snake? Are you todd school here? Like?

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Speaker 3: What to do? What the protocols?

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Speaker 2: Are.

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Speaker 4: I do remember them teaching us something, but I can't remember.

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Speaker 4: I was first gonna say, your friend sucks out the poison,

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Speaker 4: but I think that's from the movie City Slickers.

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Speaker 3: You can't be sucking out deadly venom. Otherwise your mate's

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Speaker 3: thing going to be in problem. Both.

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Speaker 4: No, no, because so say you got bitten and then

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Speaker 4: I get down on your legs, suck out the venom

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Speaker 4: and spit it to the side and keep sucking it

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Speaker 4: out until all the venom's out of your.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't the venom start to circulate in.

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Speaker 4: The Yeah, but I could get maybe could get rid

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Speaker 4: of eighty percent of.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks mine for doing that. He's save me. Guys lines,

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Speaker 3: have you actually been a bit my snake? Nine four

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Speaker 3: one four one o four three.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Dean, Morning Christian, than God, how is it good?

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Speaker 3: We're good, Dean, welcome to show. So Dean, you've been

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Speaker 3: bitten by a snake?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of times. Actually we've got pit ones

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Speaker 1: and by hayten.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, wasn't it normally? What's loving about having a pet, Dean,

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Speaker 3: is that that sort of they give you this unconditional love.

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Speaker 3: They don't really attack your but deadly venom in you.

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Speaker 3: What snakes have you got.

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Speaker 1: Dean, I'll get a wimer and a python. The wine

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Speaker 1: is the wife's one and the python's me son's one.

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Speaker 1: So we've played the rats. Sorry he's in Hurst.

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Speaker 4: Snakes you both got one?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's in Hurst. Yeah, so they're different breeds.

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Speaker 3: Say your son's got a pet python?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge, it's spits seven seven three seven four huge?

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Speaker 3: Where does the python sleep.

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Speaker 1: In the cave?

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Speaker 3: But don't they get out? Sometimes? I'm massive they do.

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Speaker 1: We've got lots on them though. Yeah, they're just just

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Speaker 1: curious animals. Originally pretty good. But when it gets a

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Speaker 1: bit of feeding time and we'll clean the snake cage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've just got to be a bit quicker than a

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not sure none of us know how

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Speaker 3: quick we are. We think are we snake quick? Who knows?

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Speaker 3: To find out you're not? As you get bit my wife?

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Speaker 3: So when you seem bit, what happened? Who beat you?

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Speaker 3: The post?

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Speaker 1: Well, especially the big one for the woman the mississ

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Speaker 1: is one bites me? Just let's go. But because it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's protecting the area. So when you go in there,

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Speaker 1: you're in the truer a tense. Why it's snakes up.

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Speaker 1: It's giving them the warning and then if you keep

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Speaker 1: keep on proceeding and just bite you, let's go. It

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Speaker 1: just gives you warning shots first. But I've got to

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Speaker 1: clean it out and the the Yeah python, my son's one,

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Speaker 1: Mtual's one. It's huge. It just bites and don't let go. Virtually,

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Speaker 1: you've got to put it on the taps. I think

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Speaker 1: it's druand to releases and that's a big one.

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Speaker 4: We want seven of foot python over to the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: I knew this is going to happen. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: bit of a struggle. This is gonna havep We got

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Speaker 1: so it releases.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, honestly, I would watch a TV show

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Speaker 3: called snake House just about your house. This is unbelievable, Dean.

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Speaker 3: You're so like Carasual about it as if it's a

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Speaker 3: little kitten that's grabbed a been great seven foot python.

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Speaker 1: Well they go bigger, I mean just they were. Of

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Speaker 1: course you get bigger and closure they get bigger, so Pince,

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Speaker 1: oh they do, some of them do, but then they

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Speaker 3: Dean. Thank you very much. Cool. Thanks Leon, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: How you going.

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Speaker 3: I'm good Leon. So you've been met by a snake?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I did. I was living up in the Hunter

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Speaker 2: Valley in your south well, you know, a great area wine,

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Speaker 2: cheese and everything, and my partner was living young in

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Speaker 2: Victoria and I was on the phone late at night

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Speaker 2: at the back of our property, just in songs and everything,

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Speaker 2: and I was walking around as you do, talking away,

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Speaker 2: I kicked it, and actually I kicked a snake in

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Speaker 2: the head. And I didn't even know I was not

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Speaker 2: bit because I can't feel my feet from surgery or anything.

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Speaker 2: But it was a baby brown So yeah, it got me.

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Speaker 3: When you say got you, so beat you? And then

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Speaker 3: what happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I just went to bed. I didn't feel it,

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Speaker 2: didn't get any reaction because of all the medication I've

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Speaker 2: been on before from surgery. And yeah, for four days

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Speaker 2: I was really sick. In my BOSSC goes, I think

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Speaker 2: you better go to the doctor. And I went to

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Speaker 2: the doctor and she's like, I've you been bit? One thing?

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Speaker 2: I say. A couple of mozzies got me on the

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Speaker 2: foot and she goes, can I have a look, and

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Speaker 2: she had to look at her and she said oh.

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Speaker 2: She goes, oh, Darla, that's she has.

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Speaker 1: That's not mosie.

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Speaker 2: You've been bit by a snake.

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Speaker 3: And then what happened and everything fine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well because there was only a warning bite,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't like an attack bite, so apparently didn't stop.

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Speaker 3: Today they give you a little warning warning warning by yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, lucky I leave through that one.

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Speaker 1: It was a briant.

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Speaker 3: You're very lucky, Leon, Leon, Thank you may sting a school.

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Speaker 3: Have a good day mate, you two.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, take care bye.

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