Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian No Show podcast. How was your weekend,
Speaker 1: Shackie boy, you met a snake?
Speaker 2: I had an uncomfortable last night, having come face to
Speaker 2: face with my own mortality yesterday afternoon. Patsy, you probably
Speaker 2: have experienced this being a country girl, But for me,
Speaker 2: I had never seen a tot of snake before.
Speaker 3: You know what, when we were when we first moved here,
Speaker 3: I just thought all of you had lived around snakes
Speaker 3: your whole night. I thought Australia, basically, judging from sort
Speaker 3: of reports that we get the other side of where
Speaker 3: England is basically a giant snake.
Speaker 2: Dit Like as much as you would see a dog,
Speaker 2: we would see. Yes, yes, I've seen brown snakes. I've
Speaker 2: never seen a tiger before.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 3: It does not to physically to your body. That's an
Speaker 3: ancient like an ancient your ancient brain, was it? The
Speaker 3: reptilian brain noses under threat, your hair stand up. You
Speaker 3: literally stopped ice cold.
Speaker 2: Dead, and well you jump backwards. I jumped backwards before
Speaker 2: I realized, before my brain processed that it was a snake.
Speaker 3: Yes, amazing. The physical reaction happens kicks him before you're aware,
Speaker 3: before you can even compute, So what happened?
Speaker 1: Where were you? So?
Speaker 2: I was up at the cabin where we're trying to
Speaker 2: get the solar panels where we did the boys weekend,
Speaker 2: and I'm filming a video for my dad to say,
Speaker 2: this is the yard work that I want you to
Speaker 2: do when we're up here next weekend.
Speaker 1: Your's amazing courage.
Speaker 3: You know, he had him around the other week picking
Speaker 3: up dog crap from his own gardens. He's retired, people,
Speaker 3: I mean I'm now, I'm now never going to retire
Speaker 3: or I just expected to pick up dog ship, get
Speaker 3: a shove l, pickup boots.
Speaker 2: I'm giving him fun things to do. You're doing him
Speaker 2: a favorite slave labor. So I'm making a video of
Speaker 2: the wheeze and stuff that he can pull.
Speaker 1: That's it. Put him to work.
Speaker 3: An old man unable to physical be made to work
Speaker 3: your lap.
Speaker 2: And then I get a shot because I swing the
Speaker 2: camera around and I see my new friend, the tiger
Speaker 2: snakes sitting on a step on the bottom step.
Speaker 1: House in a chain of recliner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of that goes from the house into the garden.
Speaker 1: Oh j Just snakes don't just sit there.
Speaker 2: They bake in the size sat there.
Speaker 1: His feet.
Speaker 2: Slithering implies that he's going from one point A to
Speaker 2: point B, but he is parked.
Speaker 5: There stunning himself.
Speaker 2: They're all out, He was stunnying.
Speaker 1: What do you mean they're out?
Speaker 5: Well, it's that time of year. They're waking from their
Speaker 5: slumber's been all the water. Well, yeah, the water could
Speaker 5: be pushing them out, especially up that way where you are. Definitely,
Speaker 5: you know when pushing it out.
Speaker 2: Makes it sound like he was trying to sleep.
Speaker 1: Water water.
Speaker 5: Covering floods. Back in nineteen ninety one, Wangarada was completely
Speaker 5: cut off from the rest of the state, and I
Speaker 5: remember there was a farmer. I went out on a
Speaker 5: dingy with a farmer to do some voice reports for
Speaker 5: three a w.
Speaker 1: This is classic reporting, isn't it. This weekend right terrible
Speaker 1: flies for some of Victoria.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's heyday if your news reporter, isn't it.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of this pointing going on at bodies
Speaker 3: of water, like you're watching it going flood, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to point it out. I see lots of water
Speaker 3: up to doorways. Can you point There's just a lot
Speaker 3: of like pointing and stuff. There must have been a
Speaker 3: rush on gum boots this weekend from local news reporters.
Speaker 1: So you actually get in a dingy. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we went in this dingy out on this farm.
Speaker 5: And you're not going to believe this, but we went
Speaker 5: under this massive, big gum tree and he said don't
Speaker 5: look up, and I said, what do you mean don't?
Speaker 5: And of course, naturally I looked up and there were
Speaker 5: all these snakes up in the tree, on a tree.
Speaker 5: Snakes on a tree. They were escaping the water. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and they're all wrapped around the branch as it was horrendous.
Speaker 1: Horror movie it was. And we all like looking down
Speaker 1: at you with their snake.
Speaker 5: Eyes saying, hey, Patsy, how are you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I had like sort of American actions,
Speaker 1: a gal like you.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: I was like something out of it. I had nightmare.
Speaker 3: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So over the weekend,
Speaker 3: Jack was out of his cabin and he was making
Speaker 3: a video to center his retired dad of work that
Speaker 3: his retired dad would need to do around.
Speaker 2: We would do together. It would be a father son.
Speaker 3: This is this audio commentary before Jack craps his pants
Speaker 3: when he sees a snake. It's basically like you're instructing
Speaker 3: some sort of foreman.
Speaker 1: You know, he's going to work the land.
Speaker 2: We'll take the wage out, get riddle long grass and
Speaker 2: this finey stuff, this finy stuff. I was gonna have
Speaker 2: to go head to pull that down. We'll take the
Speaker 2: wage out, get riddle long grass and this finny stuff
Speaker 2: down the side. Will just clean that up. Oh hello, sir, Hey,
Speaker 2: you scared me.
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 3: Who on earth says to a snake? Hello, we roll
Speaker 3: over and eleticularly or belly.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're going to do in the moment.
Speaker 1: Do not go hello.
Speaker 2: This was a confronting site. Six foot long?
Speaker 5: How big was it like?
Speaker 1: Six foot long? Come on? The video does not look six.
Speaker 2: Foot as thick as a bottle of wine.
Speaker 3: It's about it's about twenty centimeters on the video.
Speaker 1: It is not six No, I must have been a way.
Speaker 3: All right, we've got a snake catch on the line here.
Speaker 3: This is Stewie the snake Catcher. Good morning, Stewie, Good morning?
Speaker 1: Are we yeah? Yeah, we're good. So have you seen
Speaker 1: Jack's videos? Chewy?
Speaker 4: I did? I did. I can't confirm that it is
Speaker 4: a tiger snake. Ok, it's snake in the.
Speaker 2: World four, top fourth, top five.
Speaker 1: That is big. That is big. So and what should
Speaker 1: Jack have done other than say hello.
Speaker 4: Sir, Absolutely, he just remained calm, step back and give them,
Speaker 4: give the snake plenty of space, nothing to do with us.
Speaker 4: Snake's more scared of Jack than Jack was of the snake, so.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it. Romaine Colmes to you, thank you
Speaker 2: for that now in the video and we got up
Speaker 2: on the Instagram if people want to see this terrifying site.
Speaker 2: The snake has like a cobra type neck, some type
Speaker 2: of tiger cross cobra.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, So what that is is that is a
Speaker 4: threat defense mechanism. So you can imagine if a snake,
Speaker 4: something bigger than the snake was to approach it, the
Speaker 4: snake would have been flatten out and make itself look
Speaker 4: as big and scary as it possibly could.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see like like a peacock fanning its feathers.
Speaker 4: Pretty much the same technique. Yeah, every animal has their
Speaker 4: own defense mechanism, and the snake is that. And also
Speaker 4: another fact for snakes and reptiles, they're ectothermic, which means
Speaker 4: they need to go out and absorb heat through artificl
Speaker 4: you know, different things. So they have to go out
Speaker 4: and sit in the sun to be able to absorb
Speaker 4: the heat to warm their bodies up. Now, if they
Speaker 4: stay in the sun too long, well that's really go
Speaker 4: over heat and they him die. So that's why Jack's
Speaker 4: snake was sitting there nice and safe in next to
Speaker 4: the long graph, but just enough that he could warm
Speaker 4: himself up, and that if something was to come and
Speaker 4: possibly threatened the snake, and the snake's self threatened, it
Speaker 4: could pull back straight into the grass and just appear
Speaker 4: very quickly.
Speaker 2: So if I had not seen him still and kept
Speaker 2: walking down those steps, would he have got me?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I think he would have.
Speaker 4: No, he would He would have stood as still as
Speaker 4: possible until you got very very close, and then he
Speaker 4: might have jumped back. And then yeah, you would have.
Speaker 4: You would have seen him, and he would have taken
Speaker 4: off one hundred miles an hour the other direction.
Speaker 3: Now, tell with this steet, with the floods over the
Speaker 3: last couple of days, and what you're saying about how
Speaker 3: they're seeking more heat, will we see more snakes around
Speaker 3: places now because they're obviously wet or damp.
Speaker 4: Well, I've been absolutely run off my feet. The last
Speaker 4: few days with all the floods, I've been working closely
Speaker 4: with Big Pole and a few councils pulling snakes out
Speaker 4: of floodwaters. And we are going to see a few
Speaker 4: more snakes. If you can imagine any waterways house the
Speaker 4: number of different wildlife down there. So as that water rises,
Speaker 4: everything needs to go, you know, see higher ground and
Speaker 4: move away. At the moment, snakes are looking to get
Speaker 4: up high. So any trees that are in the floodwaters
Speaker 4: will have snakes in them and other wildlife. As that
Speaker 4: water starts to received, you'll see the snakes starting to
Speaker 4: move along and yeah, moving around. So if you do
Speaker 4: come across the snake, and you know, you just need
Speaker 4: to be mindful that the snake is terrified being flashed
Speaker 4: out of the time, just give it plenty of space.
Speaker 4: Call Wildlife Victoria, call a license snakecatch.
Speaker 2: Everyone.
Speaker 1: Just get coffee, said, are you still here when I
Speaker 1: get back? But I'm just gonna go and call my head.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: The most important thing that we need to realize, Yes,
Speaker 4: snakes are dangerous, but they're only dangerous if we interact
Speaker 4: and interfere with them, if we give them plenty of space.
Speaker 4: They want nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: Move on there on, Now tell me this.
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to know this because I've obviously been
Speaker 3: English terrified at snake's right, Say I get stung?
Speaker 1: Right? What should I do if I get stung by
Speaker 1: a snake?
Speaker 3: Am I to lie down very very still, to not
Speaker 3: get the blood pumping around my body and wait for
Speaker 3: help or pray for death?
Speaker 4: Firstly, Christian, you won't get stung by a snake. You
Speaker 4: will be bitten by a snake. Any If you are
Speaker 4: bitten by a snake, the first thing you do is
Speaker 4: come a compression immobilization bandage technique is the required first
Speaker 4: aid for it. However, if you don't have one, just
Speaker 4: sit still, call an ambulance and let the help come
Speaker 4: to you. You know, we probably average around three thousand
Speaker 4: snake by each year in Australia and only one point
Speaker 4: four average people die per year from snake bite. Half
Speaker 4: the average. Between one and two people a year die
Speaker 4: from bite, and usually that's because they don't get help
Speaker 4: in time, or they're out in the bush, you know,
Speaker 4: and just simply can't can't get help. But Australia is
Speaker 4: very very efficient with first aid and when it comes
Speaker 4: to snake bite, they take no chances. Treated correctly, you've
Speaker 4: got a very very high success rate as pulling proved great.
Speaker 1: Thank you, stew With the Snake Man. That is this
Speaker 1: snatcher Stewey the Snake Man, Stewie. This has been great.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: No problems.
Speaker 1: Go hey Stewiet. If people want to give you a call,
Speaker 1: give yourself a.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Add that to live reads I do every day. One
Speaker 3: three hundred reptile. I'm not going to cool triple zero
Speaker 3: if I get so. Jerry Stewie, come save me. Suck
Speaker 3: it out, Stewey a brighter not.
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