Speaker 1: Quest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 3: Over the weekend, I was talking about song Wow Friday show.
Speaker 3: I begged my wife to go on a tree pilgrimage
Speaker 3: with me. We're really into trees at the moment, and
Speaker 3: I'd heard about a beautiful Aida tree, a mountain ash
Speaker 3: tree for tree fans listening around the world right now.
Speaker 3: And it was about two and a half hour dry
Speaker 3: from a house. But also I meant we could go
Speaker 3: on explore Victoria and see, I've never been to a
Speaker 3: Warburton before.
Speaker 4: Beautiful, beautiful, and I saw you went to the Redwood
Speaker 4: Secor at Warburton as well.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's stunning there, absolutely stunning. And so
Speaker 3: the big thing, the main event was we're going to
Speaker 3: this Aida tree. So after two hours we pull up
Speaker 3: and there's a sign and then we say that it's
Speaker 3: about twenty five minutes on a dirt track. Okay, And
Speaker 3: you don't get a lot of these where we're from
Speaker 3: in the UK. You have tarmac, there are roads. You
Speaker 3: don't go down a dirt track. And my wife goes,
Speaker 3: oh a bit spooky here, Well, they can't move the
Speaker 3: tree in the middle of the road. It's nature, you know,
Speaker 3: we it's good on a dirt track. You know, we're
Speaker 3: in a clugar. It's the car. Be all right, you know,
Speaker 3: it's twenty five minutes. We're we're driving.
Speaker 4: But couldn't they build one of those travel laders at
Speaker 4: the airport where the tree is there.
Speaker 3: A gift shop there. We get there and then we
Speaker 3: see that both of us have got no phone service. Okay,
Speaker 3: because we're out in nature. This starts spooking my wife.
Speaker 3: She's like, oh, you know when someone says that, you
Speaker 3: know it's in the tree. We've driven for two hours
Speaker 3: and then I suddenly feel like this is what would
Speaker 3: be said on the documentary. And when they got there
Speaker 3: they had no phone service, but Christian O'Connell decided that
Speaker 3: they'd driven there they should carry on. My wife starts,
Speaker 3: we've got no phone service. What if the kids needs us?
Speaker 3: And went, well, if they if they need any need
Speaker 3: an emergency, we're two hours away anywhere, and they called
Speaker 3: triple zero. I said, you know, we'll be all right.
Speaker 3: We're in the car. Then it's just a forty minute.
Speaker 3: What she was on I got these trees everywhere is damn.
Speaker 3: This brings out the snakes.
Speaker 4: The damn trees bring out the snakes. I thought the
Speaker 4: sunbury out of the snakes.
Speaker 3: She was then terrified that when we got there near
Speaker 3: the aid of tree would be snakes waiting for us
Speaker 3: like a lamp bush. Because the snakes now they're coming cavin.
Speaker 3: They comment, they're English as well, fresh English blood. I
Speaker 3: haven't been an Englishman in years.
Speaker 4: They get the high vantage point.
Speaker 3: They smell us, Oh smelling from here with his after shave.
Speaker 3: Oh fancy. So my wife goes, oh, if you do
Speaker 3: get bitten or anything like that, I've got a snake
Speaker 3: kit in the car now, And I went, I did
Speaker 3: not know.
Speaker 4: This, really, what is it like anti venoms?
Speaker 3: You would think, would you from the snake bike kitch?
Speaker 3: You would think, because that's what you need is anti venoms.
Speaker 3: I opened it up. It was a lone solitary bandage
Speaker 3: called snake bike bandage. And I'm thinking, basically, if I
Speaker 3: get bitten by a snake, I'm putting that round my
Speaker 3: neck and just taking myself out. That's the only good
Speaker 3: that that is gonna be. What's that gonna do when
Speaker 3: there's poison in my bloodstream? Quick bandage around this and
Speaker 3: I'll be as good as Girl Dumming.
Speaker 4: If anything is just keeping the poison in there.
Speaker 3: Yes, so obviously we turn the car. Well, I didn't
Speaker 3: get to see the agent.
Speaker 4: You didn't even get out of the car.
Speaker 3: Five hour round trip. I haven't seen the Aida Tree.
Speaker 4: What a show.
Speaker 3: All I saw was a bandage had a lovely ludgo
Speaker 3: at lunch out there and a pint. But that was it.
Speaker 3: We went back home. The kids were like, when I
Speaker 3: was the Aia Tree, when we didn't, you must do
Speaker 3: worry about being bitten snakes.
Speaker 4: No one really gets there.
Speaker 3: And that's what I said. Look, we've been here almost
Speaker 3: four years. I've not met anyone who's been bitten by
Speaker 3: a snake. They've seen them, they're not being bitten by them.
Speaker 3: I just asked the eight people that are working on
Speaker 3: the show right now. None of you, luckily have been
Speaker 3: bitten by.
Speaker 4: Snake seeing a bunch of snakes. But they try and
Speaker 4: stay out of your way. They'll see you today and
Speaker 4: they'll get out of here.
Speaker 3: Try and stay out of your way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're as scared of you as you are of them.
Speaker 4: Even more scared.
Speaker 3: Now. My wife told me, if you're walking along the
Speaker 3: person in the front is the safest because suddenly the
Speaker 3: snake's got Oh there's someone walking here and you've already
Speaker 3: gone past, and the next person go, oh, there they are.
Speaker 4: No, they're not trying to Life has a lot.
Speaker 3: Of made up bs about snakes. As I've been married
Speaker 3: to Joe Rogan Neil Young, it's not going to like it.
Speaker 3: You're splaining snake misinformation and lies this morning calling how
Speaker 3: have you been bitten by a snake? Because English people
Speaker 3: just convinced that you've all been bit by snakes and
Speaker 3: they're everywhere. They're in like duney stilet, snakes are everywhere.
Speaker 3: I've only seen one in almost four years of living it.
Speaker 4: I think you've gotta be walking through long grass and
Speaker 4: spook it. I don't be fair.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of long grass.
Speaker 4: What about the dirt track?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then it came to a stop and you
Speaker 3: had a forty minute walk to get to the Zada tree.
Speaker 4: I think you would have been safe.
Speaker 3: I got that bandage. The Christian O'Connell show podcast, What
Speaker 3: would you do if you were out the mount and
Speaker 3: you got bitten by a snake? Are you todd school here? Like?
Speaker 3: What to do? What the protocols?
Speaker 2: Are.
Speaker 4: I do remember them teaching us something, but I can't remember.
Speaker 4: I was first gonna say, your friend sucks out the poison,
Speaker 4: but I think that's from the movie City Slickers.
Speaker 3: You can't be sucking out deadly venom. Otherwise your mate's
Speaker 3: thing going to be in problem. Both.
Speaker 4: No, no, because so say you got bitten and then
Speaker 4: I get down on your legs, suck out the venom
Speaker 4: and spit it to the side and keep sucking it
Speaker 4: out until all the venom's out of your.
Speaker 3: Doesn't the venom start to circulate in.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, but I could get maybe could get rid
Speaker 4: of eighty percent of.
Speaker 3: Oh, thanks mine for doing that. He's save me. Guys lines,
Speaker 3: have you actually been a bit my snake? Nine four
Speaker 3: one four one o four three.
Speaker 1: Good morning Dean, Morning Christian, than God, how is it good?
Speaker 3: We're good, Dean, welcome to show. So Dean, you've been
Speaker 3: bitten by a snake?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of times. Actually we've got pit ones
Speaker 1: and by hayten.
Speaker 3: Sorry, wasn't it normally? What's loving about having a pet, Dean,
Speaker 3: is that that sort of they give you this unconditional love.
Speaker 3: They don't really attack your but deadly venom in you.
Speaker 3: What snakes have you got.
Speaker 1: Dean, I'll get a wimer and a python. The wine
Speaker 1: is the wife's one and the python's me son's one.
Speaker 1: So we've played the rats. Sorry he's in Hurst.
Speaker 4: Snakes you both got one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's in Hurst. Yeah, so they're different breeds.
Speaker 3: Say your son's got a pet python?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge, it's spits seven seven three seven four huge?
Speaker 3: Where does the python sleep.
Speaker 1: In the cave?
Speaker 3: But don't they get out? Sometimes? I'm massive they do.
Speaker 1: We've got lots on them though. Yeah, they're just just
Speaker 1: curious animals. Originally pretty good. But when it gets a
Speaker 1: bit of feeding time and we'll clean the snake cage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've just got to be a bit quicker than a
Speaker 1: bit feisty.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not sure none of us know how
Speaker 3: quick we are. We think are we snake quick? Who knows?
Speaker 3: To find out you're not? As you get bit my wife?
Speaker 3: So when you seem bit, what happened? Who beat you?
Speaker 3: The post?
Speaker 1: Well, especially the big one for the woman the mississ
Speaker 1: is one bites me? Just let's go. But because it's
Speaker 1: it's it's protecting the area. So when you go in there,
Speaker 1: you're in the truer a tense. Why it's snakes up.
Speaker 1: It's giving them the warning and then if you keep
Speaker 1: keep on proceeding and just bite you, let's go. It
Speaker 1: just gives you warning shots first. But I've got to
Speaker 1: clean it out and the the Yeah python, my son's one,
Speaker 1: Mtual's one. It's huge. It just bites and don't let go. Virtually,
Speaker 1: you've got to put it on the taps. I think
Speaker 1: it's druand to releases and that's a big one.
Speaker 4: We want seven of foot python over to the kitchen.
Speaker 1: I knew this is going to happen. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a struggle. This is gonna havep We got
Speaker 1: to put in the bath just to think it's ground
Speaker 1: so it releases.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, honestly, I would watch a TV show
Speaker 3: called snake House just about your house. This is unbelievable, Dean.
Speaker 3: You're so like Carasual about it as if it's a
Speaker 3: little kitten that's grabbed a been great seven foot python.
Speaker 1: Well they go bigger, I mean just they were. Of
Speaker 1: course you get bigger and closure they get bigger, so Pince,
Speaker 1: oh they do, some of them do, but then they
Speaker 1: stop growing side But yeah, they get bigger as in
Speaker 1: broader as well.
Speaker 3: Dean. Thank you very much. Cool. Thanks Leon, Good morning.
Speaker 2: How you going.
Speaker 3: I'm good Leon. So you've been met by a snake?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I did. I was living up in the Hunter
Speaker 2: Valley in your south well, you know, a great area wine,
Speaker 2: cheese and everything, and my partner was living young in
Speaker 2: Victoria and I was on the phone late at night
Speaker 2: at the back of our property, just in songs and everything,
Speaker 2: and I was walking around as you do, talking away,
Speaker 2: and I thought there was a stick on the ground.
Speaker 2: I kicked it, and actually I kicked a snake in
Speaker 2: the head. And I didn't even know I was not
Speaker 2: bit because I can't feel my feet from surgery or anything.
Speaker 2: But it was a baby brown So yeah, it got me.
Speaker 3: When you say got you, so beat you? And then
Speaker 3: what happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I just went to bed. I didn't feel it,
Speaker 2: didn't get any reaction because of all the medication I've
Speaker 2: been on before from surgery. And yeah, for four days
Speaker 2: I was really sick. In my BOSSC goes, I think
Speaker 2: you better go to the doctor. And I went to
Speaker 2: the doctor and she's like, I've you been bit? One thing?
Speaker 2: I say. A couple of mozzies got me on the
Speaker 2: foot and she goes, can I have a look, and
Speaker 2: she had to look at her and she said oh.
Speaker 2: She goes, oh, Darla, that's she has.
Speaker 1: That's not mosie.
Speaker 2: You've been bit by a snake.
Speaker 3: And then what happened and everything fine?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well because there was only a warning bite,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like an attack bite, so apparently didn't stop.
Speaker 3: Today they give you a little warning warning warning by yeah.
Speaker 2: So I was like, lucky I leave through that one.
Speaker 1: It was a briant.
Speaker 3: You're very lucky, Leon, Leon, Thank you may sting a school.
Speaker 3: Have a good day mate, you two.
Speaker 2: Thanks, take care bye.
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