This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Baxter from Southern New England to Jeremy

Zachus in New South Wales, end of summertime, and it's a wet end of summertime. Now, what I've learned is

the venomous snakes of Australia are delicate creatures, not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry. And of course, they complain a lot.

And once they start moving around, anything's possible, we've found them in child's backpacks.

We've found them in the engine block. Certainly under your car seat when you get in, in your shoes.

Let me think, anything that moves, they'll be in.

They can be in a pillowcase.

They look for the perfect spot.

They're delicate.

They're princess on a pee on them under five mattresses.

That's who they are.

So we're looking for trouble always whenever the weather is irregular and it's been irregular.

All right, Jeremy, where are we finding the creatures this week?

Well, John, we're finding them in probably the most unusual places, I guess you can say.

The first one I'll take you to is Geelong in Victoria.

So this is the state that's down to the bottom right of the map of Australia,

not really associated a lot with snakes, because as you often hear, we talk about snake bites

here in Sydney and up in Queensland where you tend to get most of the venomous snakes

and python. But no, Geelong, Victoria comes into the picture this week. And Geelong itself is

actually to the very south of Melbourne. So it's right

down in one of the coldest parts of the Australian continent. Well, this week, John, we had quite

an amazing snake story. A woman was in her backyard just doing a little bit of watering. She had

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