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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's I don't know if you saw the

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Speaker 1: news last night, but made my skin crawl. There are

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Speaker 1: snakes now getting into the rescue craft. How about that

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Speaker 1: This isn't a paragraph from the Sydney Morning Herald this

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Speaker 1: morning golping mouthfuls of swarming insects and swatting spiders off

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Speaker 1: each other. Twelve firefighters in three rescue rafts ventured through

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Speaker 1: the dark in the early hours of Saturday. They were

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Speaker 1: trying to rescue a family of six stranded near Port Macquarie,

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Speaker 1: but the worst was yet to come. It was quite

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Speaker 1: a surprise to hear on the radio be careful of

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Speaker 1: all the snakes because the snakes are seeking refuge inside

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Speaker 1: their rafts, so they have to fling the snakes out

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Speaker 1: before they can get in. One of them stepped. One

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Speaker 1: of the firefighters stepped out of the boat and pretty

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Speaker 1: much stepped onto a black snake. And then there's the spiders. Yep,

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Speaker 1: these spiders are also trying to keep out of the water.

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Speaker 1: People have been posting photos to Facebook just air whole

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Speaker 1: areas that say, this isn't this isn't brown wood, this

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Speaker 1: is writhing spiders, anything.

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Speaker 2: Writhing And this is Pamela Anderson. I'm just thinking writhing

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Speaker 2: is not a good thing. And actually Pamela Anderson lately no,

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Speaker 2: so why.

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Speaker 1: Would she be on your fence post? And there may

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Speaker 1: be some good news in that this might slow down

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Speaker 1: the mouse plague, but.

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Speaker 3: You know what the mouse plague makes and spiders and

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Speaker 3: now we've got a mouse biblical Well we've had.

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Speaker 1: The mouse plague for a couple of months. So we've

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Speaker 1: had these poor people droughts, fires, COVID mouse plague, floods.

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Speaker 1: Have I left anything out?

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Speaker 3: Do you think we should go and knock on Hillsong's

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Speaker 3: door next door and say, hey, do you guys know something?

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Speaker 1: Do you have any connections? Can you actually have a word?

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Speaker 2: I have a word.

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Speaker 3: We're pretty good.

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Speaker 1: So in northern New South Wales in particular pest populations

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Speaker 1: of mice and there's a picture I've got here, look

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Speaker 1: at it looks like a fake picture about eight of

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Speaker 1: them sticking their heads out of a loaf of bread.

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Speaker 1: But particularly glar bone pests populations have been ruining crops.

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Speaker 1: It's just stripping the supermarket shelves of food. People in

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Speaker 1: hospital have being what them.

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Speaker 3: The mice into the supermarkets that's right.

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Speaker 1: There, and it's in people's cupboards eating all the food.

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Speaker 1: People have been saying. There's one some footage I saw

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Speaker 1: of a woman who's just come home from hospital with

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Speaker 1: a new baby. She said, look at this one crawled

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Speaker 1: out of a pillowcase. People have been bitten in their

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Speaker 1: beds at night. And the person who runs the Galargan

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Speaker 1: bone store said he's catching nearly five hundred every night,

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Speaker 1: sometimes six hundred every single.

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Speaker 3: Does he do all night? We kill them, yeah, of course,

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Speaker 3: but it's a lot to kill.

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And what they're saying now is that maybe because of

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Speaker 1: the floods, some of the babies may have been swept away,

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Speaker 1: some of the mice may have died, And that's what

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Speaker 1: they're hoping is that this may make an impact. You

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Speaker 1: have to keep the breeding in check before next spring,

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Speaker 1: before the next breeding season. But they don't know that

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Speaker 1: this will necessarily end the mouse plague. But it has

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Speaker 1: been horrendous.

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Speaker 3: It's foul, and then you look at it. In the city,

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Speaker 3: kids collect mice and put them on little wheels.

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Speaker 1: They put them in little plastic cages with wheels and go,

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Speaker 1: Aren't they cute?

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Speaker 3: Aren't they cute.

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Speaker 1: At least it's not coming out of your pillowcase and

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Speaker 1: chomping into a loaf of bread or.

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Speaker 3: Writhing around on your fence post.

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Speaker 1: No, that's the spiders or Pamela Anderson with join Z

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Speaker 1: and Amanda