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Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian No Show podcast. How was your weekend,

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Speaker 1: Shackie boy, you met a snake?

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Speaker 2: I had an uncomfortable last night, having come face to

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Speaker 2: face with my own mortality yesterday afternoon. Patsy, you probably

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Speaker 2: have experienced this being a country girl, But for me,

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Speaker 2: I had never seen a tot of snake before.

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Speaker 3: You know what, when we were when we first moved here,

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Speaker 3: I just thought all of you had lived around snakes

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Speaker 3: your whole night. I thought Australia, basically, judging from sort

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Speaker 3: of reports that we get the other side of where

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Speaker 3: England is basically a giant snake.

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Speaker 2: Dit Like as much as you would see a dog,

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Speaker 2: we would see. Yes, yes, I've seen brown snakes. I've

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Speaker 2: never seen a tiger before.

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Speaker 4: I have.

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Speaker 3: It does not to physically to your body. That's an

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Speaker 3: ancient like an ancient your ancient brain, was it? The

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Speaker 3: reptilian brain noses under threat, your hair stand up. You

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Speaker 3: literally stopped ice cold.

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Speaker 2: Dead, and well you jump backwards. I jumped backwards before

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Speaker 2: I realized, before my brain processed that it was a snake.

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Speaker 3: Yes, amazing. The physical reaction happens kicks him before you're aware,

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Speaker 3: before you can even compute, So what happened?

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Speaker 1: Where were you? So?

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Speaker 2: I was up at the cabin where we're trying to

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Speaker 2: get the solar panels where we did the boys weekend,

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Speaker 2: and I'm filming a video for my dad to say,

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Speaker 2: this is the yard work that I want you to

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Speaker 2: do when we're up here next weekend.

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Speaker 1: Your's amazing courage.

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Speaker 3: You know, he had him around the other week picking

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Speaker 3: up dog crap from his own gardens. He's retired, people,

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Speaker 3: I mean I'm now, I'm now never going to retire

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Speaker 3: or I just expected to pick up dog ship, get

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Speaker 3: a shove l, pickup boots.

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Speaker 2: I'm giving him fun things to do. You're doing him

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Speaker 2: a favorite slave labor. So I'm making a video of

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Speaker 2: the wheeze and stuff that he can pull.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Put him to work.

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Speaker 3: An old man unable to physical be made to work

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Speaker 3: your lap.

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Speaker 2: And then I get a shot because I swing the

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Speaker 2: camera around and I see my new friend, the tiger

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Speaker 2: snakes sitting on a step on the bottom step.

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Speaker 1: House in a chain of recliner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of that goes from the house into the garden.

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Speaker 1: Oh j Just snakes don't just sit there.

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Speaker 2: They bake in the size sat there.

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Speaker 1: His feet.

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Speaker 2: Slithering implies that he's going from one point A to

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Speaker 2: point B, but he is parked.

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Speaker 5: There stunning himself.

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Speaker 2: They're all out, He was stunnying.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean they're out?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's that time of year. They're waking from their

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Speaker 5: slumber's been all the water. Well, yeah, the water could

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Speaker 5: be pushing them out, especially up that way where you are. Definitely,

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Speaker 5: you know when pushing it out.

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Speaker 2: Makes it sound like he was trying to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Water water.

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Speaker 5: Covering floods. Back in nineteen ninety one, Wangarada was completely

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Speaker 5: cut off from the rest of the state, and I

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Speaker 5: remember there was a farmer. I went out on a

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Speaker 5: dingy with a farmer to do some voice reports for

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Speaker 5: three a w.

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Speaker 1: This is classic reporting, isn't it. This weekend right terrible

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Speaker 1: flies for some of Victoria.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's heyday if your news reporter, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of this pointing going on at bodies

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Speaker 3: of water, like you're watching it going flood, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: have to point it out. I see lots of water

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Speaker 3: up to doorways. Can you point There's just a lot

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Speaker 3: of like pointing and stuff. There must have been a

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Speaker 3: rush on gum boots this weekend from local news reporters.

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Speaker 1: So you actually get in a dingy. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So we went in this dingy out on this farm.

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Speaker 5: And you're not going to believe this, but we went

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Speaker 5: under this massive, big gum tree and he said don't

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Speaker 5: look up, and I said, what do you mean don't?

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Speaker 5: And of course, naturally I looked up and there were

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Speaker 5: all these snakes up in the tree, on a tree.

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Speaker 5: Snakes on a tree. They were escaping the water. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and they're all wrapped around the branch as it was horrendous.

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Speaker 1: Horror movie it was. And we all like looking down

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Speaker 1: at you with their snake.

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Speaker 5: Eyes saying, hey, Patsy, how are you?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? I had like sort of American actions,

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 5: I was like something out of it. I had nightmare.

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Speaker 3: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So over the weekend,

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Speaker 3: Jack was out of his cabin and he was making

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Speaker 3: a video to center his retired dad of work that

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Speaker 3: his retired dad would need to do around.

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Speaker 2: We would do together. It would be a father son.

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Speaker 3: This is this audio commentary before Jack craps his pants

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Speaker 3: when he sees a snake. It's basically like you're instructing

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Speaker 3: some sort of foreman.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's going to work the land.

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Speaker 2: We'll take the wage out, get riddle long grass and

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Speaker 2: this finey stuff, this finy stuff. I was gonna have

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Speaker 2: to go head to pull that down. We'll take the

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Speaker 2: wage out, get riddle long grass and this finny stuff

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Speaker 2: down the side. Will just clean that up. Oh hello, sir, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you scared me.

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Speaker 1: Sir?

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Speaker 3: Who on earth says to a snake? Hello, we roll

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Speaker 3: over and eleticularly or belly.

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Speaker 2: You don't know what you're going to do in the moment.

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Speaker 1: Do not go hello.

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Speaker 2: This was a confronting site. Six foot long?

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Speaker 5: How big was it like?

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Speaker 1: Six foot long? Come on? The video does not look six.

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Speaker 2: Foot as thick as a bottle of wine.

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Speaker 3: It's about it's about twenty centimeters on the video.

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Speaker 1: It is not six No, I must have been a way.

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Speaker 3: All right, we've got a snake catch on the line here.

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Speaker 3: This is Stewie the snake Catcher. Good morning, Stewie, Good morning?

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Speaker 1: Are we yeah? Yeah, we're good. So have you seen

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Speaker 1: Jack's videos? Chewy?

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Speaker 4: I did? I did. I can't confirm that it is

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Speaker 4: a tiger snake. Ok, it's snake in the.

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Speaker 2: World four, top fourth, top five.

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Speaker 1: That is big. That is big. So and what should

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Speaker 1: Jack have done other than say hello.

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Speaker 4: Sir, Absolutely, he just remained calm, step back and give them,

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Speaker 4: give the snake plenty of space, nothing to do with us.

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Speaker 4: Snake's more scared of Jack than Jack was of the snake, so.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it. Romaine Colmes to you, thank you

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Speaker 2: for that now in the video and we got up

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Speaker 2: on the Instagram if people want to see this terrifying site.

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Speaker 2: The snake has like a cobra type neck, some type

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Speaker 2: of tiger cross cobra.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. No, So what that is is that is a

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Speaker 4: threat defense mechanism. So you can imagine if a snake,

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Speaker 4: snake would have been flatten out and make itself look

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Speaker 3: Oh, I see like like a peacock fanning its feathers.

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Speaker 4: Pretty much the same technique. Yeah, every animal has their

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Speaker 4: own defense mechanism, and the snake is that. And also

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Speaker 4: another fact for snakes and reptiles, they're ectothermic, which means

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Speaker 4: they need to go out and absorb heat through artificl

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Speaker 4: the heat to warm their bodies up. Now, if they

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Speaker 4: stay in the sun too long, well that's really go

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Speaker 4: over heat and they him die. So that's why Jack's

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Speaker 4: the long graph, but just enough that he could warm

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Speaker 2: So if I had not seen him still and kept

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Speaker 2: walking down those steps, would he have got me?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: I think he would have.

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Speaker 4: No, he would He would have stood as still as

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Speaker 4: might have jumped back. And then yeah, you would have.

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Speaker 4: You would have seen him, and he would have taken

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Speaker 3: Now, tell with this steet, with the floods over the

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Speaker 3: they're seeking more heat, will we see more snakes around

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Speaker 4: Well, I've been absolutely run off my feet. The last

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Speaker 4: of floodwaters. And we are going to see a few

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Speaker 4: more snakes. If you can imagine any waterways house the

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Speaker 4: number of different wildlife down there. So as that water rises,

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Speaker 4: everything needs to go, you know, see higher ground and

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Speaker 4: move away. At the moment, snakes are looking to get

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Speaker 4: up high. So any trees that are in the floodwaters

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Speaker 4: Call Wildlife Victoria, call a license snakecatch.

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Speaker 2: Everyone.

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Speaker 1: Just get coffee, said, are you still here when I

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Speaker 1: get back? But I'm just gonna go and call my head.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: The most important thing that we need to realize, Yes,

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Speaker 4: snakes are dangerous, but they're only dangerous if we interact

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Speaker 4: and interfere with them, if we give them plenty of space.

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Speaker 4: They want nothing to do with that.

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Speaker 1: Move on there on, Now tell me this.

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Speaker 3: I've always wanted to know this because I've obviously been

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Speaker 3: English terrified at snake's right, Say I get stung?

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Speaker 1: Right? What should I do if I get stung by

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Speaker 3: Am I to lie down very very still, to not

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Speaker 4: Firstly, Christian, you won't get stung by a snake. You

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Speaker 4: will be bitten by a snake. Any If you are

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Speaker 4: bitten by a snake, the first thing you do is

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Speaker 4: come a compression immobilization bandage technique is the required first

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Speaker 4: aid for it. However, if you don't have one, just

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Speaker 4: sit still, call an ambulance and let the help come

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Speaker 4: to you. You know, we probably average around three thousand

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Speaker 4: snake by each year in Australia and only one point

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Speaker 4: four average people die per year from snake bite. Half

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Speaker 4: the average. Between one and two people a year die

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Speaker 4: from bite, and usually that's because they don't get help

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Speaker 4: and just simply can't can't get help. But Australia is

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Speaker 4: to snake bite, they take no chances. Treated correctly, you've

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Speaker 4: got a very very high success rate as pulling proved great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, stew With the Snake Man. That is this

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Speaker 1: snatcher Stewey the Snake Man, Stewie. This has been great.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: No problems.

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Speaker 1: Go hey Stewiet. If people want to give you a call,

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Speaker 1: give yourself a.

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