This is the Friends History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel in New England, where the snow is on the ground.

The ice is underneath the snow. We're expecting more within these next hours, more snow.

It comes from the northwest, straight off of the lake country, but originates in Siberia,

and heads through Canada, through Toronto and the lakes, right into

northwestern New York, Buffalo area, and then swings. So because I'm in southern New England,

it brushes to the north of me and puts a lot of snow on where I am if there's also a warm front

coming from the south at the same time. A lot of snow, which warms up the air enough to snow. Right now,

it's too cold to snow, so if there's warm front tonight,

we'll get snow. If not, just more cold. Jeremy Zakus, on the other hand, is in

sunny, summery, rainy, extremely hot, New South Wales. All of this describes the setting for our hero, Dallas, the 11-year-old spool,

who has adopted every bird he can see. Essentially, he was adopted by a magpie family,

but everybody else comes in. We've watched for weeks now, the crows stand back until the cockatoos are the aggressors.

Large, white, beautiful birds.

At the same time, they turn out to be villains.

They tear things up.

They intimidate other birds.

They keep their eyes on humans and intimidate humans. But an episode,

Jeremy, in Australia we have learned, you do not have the Corvitt big black crow that I have here

living in a field nearby me, a big family with a grandfather who every morning opines very loudly.

And the other crows are obese and they respect their elder.

They live in a great big field surrounded by white pines and eat very well.

And when they land on any part of my farm, I see how big they are.

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