#OzWatch: Eastern Brown teenager stops the Brisbane International Tennis Match. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | EasyJet's Big Orange sale has landed with up to 300 pounds off package holidays |
| 0:07.0 | so grab your mates for a bliss-filled beach break with direct flights from an airport near you. |
| 0:13.2 | But now, with just a 60 pounds per person deposit. |
| 0:16.6 | Ask Alexa to open Easy Jet Holidays. |
| 0:19.6 | Sale end 11 PM 5th of February 2024. |
| 0:22.3 | Minimum spend required. final balance due 28 |
| 0:24.7 | days before travel at all protected tease and sees apply. |
| 0:29.4 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society I'm'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zuckus in New South Wales. |
| 0:35.0 | Snakes. Snakes are part of the bounty, the richness of Australia. They have some venomous snakes. |
| 0:44.0 | Eastern Brown, giant eastern brown, red-bellied black snake. |
| 0:48.0 | There's some others. There's a sea snake that's not a good day. |
| 0:52.0 | There's a carpet python that will not try to bite you, but it will try to |
| 0:56.8 | strangle your puppy dog if you have one and you're not checking on him or her. However, we come to snakes inside. They've been in walls, they've |
| 1:06.4 | been in internet boxes, they hide in children's cabinets, they hide under the pillow, and it turns out they hide in toilets. |
| 1:16.7 | Now Jeremy, a toilet snake frightens everybody. |
| 1:21.2 | Are these commonplace or is just a year for toilet snakes? |
| 1:26.4 | This is now becoming a commonplace. |
| 1:28.8 | In fact, it's almost a year of the toilet snake and it has been a problem that's become |
| 1:32.4 | more prevalent in the last 12 months and I guess a little bit like the mystery of where El Nino went, we really didn't understand why there was so many new stories about snakes turning up in toilets. Well, scientists now have the answer. What's happened |
| 1:45.2 | is with all the flood systems and all the droughts and all the habitats of where snakes would normally |
| 1:49.5 | be living being washed out and wiped out, these poor little critters have had to go to new areas to find food, to find shelter, to find a place where they feel safe. |
| 1:58.0 | Hence they've come into the suburbs and into the homes, which is the perfect place for a snake. They're out of the floodwaters. |
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