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The John Batchelor Show

#OzWatch: Pet pythons find their way home. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Books, News, Society & Culture, Arts

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

This year at Azda in thousands of blind taste tests, hundreds of our products proved as tasty or tastier than M&S.

0:09.0

We asked our new Chief Quality Officer Michael Buble what he thought.

0:13.2

Well I could have told you that.

0:14.8

Emm and has tasted Azda price, right?

0:17.2

Put on a show this Christmas.

0:19.8

Azda.

0:20.8

That's more like it. Selected Asder stores online subject to availability for verification see

0:26.0

asder.com slash independent tests from May 2023.

0:30.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Battler with Jeremy Zachus, waiting for the big game in Akhmatabad.

0:37.0

So we pay attention to the snakes coming out all over the place because of the unusual weather, the wet weather, the heat driving the snakes

0:45.7

out.

0:46.7

We now have a story about a snake catcher who lost a game of snakes and ladders, but's okay right Jeremy he didn't get hurt.

0:55.0

That's exactly right John and this is actually the snake patch

1:00.0

called Clinton up in Harvey Bay in Queensland and Harvey Harvey Bay in Queensland, if you look at a map of Australia on the right hand side, you'll see Brisbane, which is our major city in Queensland, and Harvey Bay is about halfway up the coast there. So it's very much in a tropical area

1:13.2

rain forests near near a beach very very beautiful part of the country and great for

1:18.5

tourists but also absolutely great for pythons and we're talking big pythons here. In this story here,

1:25.0

Clinton goes to battle with a two meter python, which is actually not the largest of the snake type up there.

1:30.3

Often the pythons get to three meters but what actually occurred was

1:34.4

Clinton was called out to a house where a python had got itself up into the roof

1:37.8

which is fairly normal and for a snake catches that's very much a routine kind of call out especially for that part of the country.

1:44.8

But the problem was this Python was a little bit more widely than normal.

1:48.4

So Clinton instead of going in, finding the snake, pulling it out, putting it in the bag, getting ready to take it up to the

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