This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel in southern New England, very far from death adders.

It turns out, Jeremy has not told me everything about everything in Australia will try to kill you because it's exotic and you don't understand it.

Now, I've trained myself to say, if and when I ever speak of Australia on the ground in

Australia, I will not step on sticks. That's an eastern brown. I will not wander through the

wilderness and coming across red-belly black snakes. I certainly will avoid having carpet pythons in my bedroll overnight. But death

adder, Jeremy, we've never talked of it. What is it? Well, John, the death adder, and I think I've

kept this from me because I don't want to scare you completely from ever coming to Australia,

but the death adder actually is one of our, if not our

top, most dangerous snake. And it is, as it sounds like it is an adder type snake. So if you imagine

saying the desert there in the United States, you have these snakes that are kind of gray looking

very ferocious cobra types that rear up and basically strike and strike until you're dead.

Well, the death adder is like that,

but probably two to three times more ferocious and more aggressive than some of those

cobras that you get there in the United Snakes. And the death adder itself, if you have a look at

it, it's a kind of a gray snake with a bit of a, a little bit of a tiger pattern with dots

on it. So it looks absolutely scary at the best

of times, but it also blends in very well with the Australian bushland. And the death adder

itself, it's relatively rare around Sydney, but it is in fairly high numbers in our national

parks just to the west. So literally, I'd only have to drive an hour from here. They're

pretty much find a death adder if I was really looking for it. But the worst feature So literally, I'd only have to drive an hour from here. They're pretty much fine to

death add it if I was really looking for it. But the worst feature of this snake, and probably

the most dangerous part of the snake, is that death adders have relatively large fangs,

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