SNAKES

Episode Transcript

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Matt in the commercial break, youshared a story with me that you found,
and this one is an interesting one, uh I and I want to
debate this. It's not really adebate as much as a discussion because I'm
seeing a story that's not it's notreally similar, but it involves a similar
type of thing. I'll just letyou go. What did you find here?
I found a story from Indonesia.Indonesia. That's a that's like a

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is that that's a chain of likeit's not islands. It's not like an
archipelago of islands, is it.Uh you do some googling Isoonesia. No,
it is. It isn't an archipelago. It's yeah, there is.
There's a main body of Indonesia withit looks like some outcropping islands around it.
It's just there. It's it's itwould be to the north of Australia
and underneath like Southeast Asia. Yeah, Philippines to its north. You've got

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Singapore over there to its to itswest, Copa New Guinea to its east.
There you go. Uh So,so now we have context and where
this is. By the way,uh, Indonesia, I give you ten
thousand dollars. You can go ona trip to Indonesia. I feel this
is a pretty easy Yes, Ithink so. Like Indonesia, there's gonna
be stuff there that you're just notgoing to see anywhere else, right,
absolutely so. So Matt, it'sgot this story. I just found seventeen

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thousand islands are a part of Indonesia. Wow, seventeen thousand. That's cool.
Wow. All right, anyway,Indonesia. What's going on there?
Indonesia? So let's go on astory together. Here. A forty five
year old woman went for a walkin Indonesia last Thursday night. Okay,
she never came back. Her husbandwondered why, gathered some community members together,
went out to find her. Foundsome of her belongings on a pathway,

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found that to be suspicious, keptgoing. Then saw a very very
full snake. Uh oh yeah,forty five year old woman was eaten whole
by a python, A sixteen footpython. Sixteen foot python. Yeah.
They cut open the snake's stomach andfound the woman inside. Oh, no
longer alive unfortunately, Well yeah,I mean she was eating there's no way

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that she is alive. Yeah,no Pinocchio story here. No, poor
snake was in the process of digestinga meal and then they just like cut
him up anyway. Yeah, sothis is a human woman. Yeah,
fifth time since twenty seventeen that aperson has been eaten by a python in
Indonesia. Okay, so how youhave to ask yourself like how does this
happen? And I showed you aphoto. I actually had a photo with

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a reticulated python who was probably aboutfourteen feet long. Okay, so just
right around where this one is.Yeah, yeah, we'll see weight of
reticulated python. Yeah, about onehundred and seventy ish pounds on hundred and
fifty hundred, twenty pounds. Imean, this is a heavy, heavy
snake. They're really long, reallyheavy. This is not a Burmese python,
but they're related obviously a python.What does python mean? Python means

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they are going to squeeze their food. They're not going to attack with a
bite. They are going to attackwith a squeeze. And man, they
are strong. They are incredibly incrediblystrong. These things. If they get
like if they grab a foot,if somehow now you're not paying attention and
it grabs a foot, it couldtake it down. They can use their
mouth to try to like inhibit themovement for you, and that won't feel

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very good. But it's not likea venomous bite. But if you are
caught at all off guard by oneof these guys and they're not like they're
so big, they're not super fast, you just wouldn't see them because they're
incredibly well camouflaged because of their markings. Dude, I'm telling you you are
not winning a battle with them,even like a bodybuilder. I'm not sure
a bodybuilder has the strength when likea python of this size wraps its body

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around potential prey. Like I just, I'm not sure there's going to be
any possible way that a human isgoing to be able to break that easily.
You're going to have to somehow killthe snake. Now, how do
you do that while you're being squeezedto death? I have no idea.
Does this change your opinion about goingIndonesia? That's like almost one a year,
Like once a year, somebody who'sprobably a tourist gets tripped up or

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is sitting down or is in takingin the surroundings and without them noticing a
reticular related python might it's not bitingthem. Like I said, this isn't
like a rattle snake. That's youknow, going to try to like or
a cobra just like strike you,but it's going to quickly try to like
grab a leg or something and takeyou down if it's hungry. And it's

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happened five times in the last sevenyears, yep, in one country.
Yeah, that change you? Howdo you feel about this? I would
just, you know, with tenthousand dollars, I think I could hire
a pretty good guide. That's whatI would do. All right, You're
just not going to go alone,right, that's a good plan, good
plan, and that will help inthat situation. If you know, one
person is getting wrapped up by apython, the other person's going to be
able to notice quickly and help thempotentially escape. Now I am fascinated by

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snakes. I don't have a fearof snakes. Do you have a fear
of snakes? Not? Particularly ifI brought a snake. If I brought
a reticulated python in with snake guys, like I had a snake guy give
me a particulated python so I couldtake a picture with it. Nice big
snake, very heavy. But ifI had them bring one in, would
you interact with it? Would yougive some pets. Would you let it
sit on your neck and your shoulders? Snake guys here, snake guy's here.

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Yeah, as long as the snakeguy doesn't leave, you know,
doesn't just like set them on myshoulders and say see you, it doesn't
freaky out. Yeah, I thinkI'd be fine as long as the guy's
there. Yeah. So so usuallythe ones that are used to handling,
not the ones in the wild,but the ones that are used to handling,
I mean, they're just like whatever, Yeah, you know what I
mean. And if you're feeding them, you don't have to feed them super
regularly, but you feed them right. As long as you're feeding them and

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they're not hungry, they're not gonnatry to eat you, you know.
You know what I'm saying. Thisis the thing about animals in captivity and
why they let they live so muchlonger than their wild counterparts, is they
are given food on the regular Theydon't have to like go hunting for it
or have potentially starved to death.They are actually able to eat with regularity
and maintain like a healthy body weight. So as long as you're feeding your

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snake, that's not a big problem. I saw a page that I follow
is the Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, whichis really cool. You follow a Nebraska
Wildlife Rehab on Facebook? I don't. I don't have a Facebook. Oh
yeah, that's right, Nebraska WildlifeRehab. They say they've reached I'm just
going to quote this from a couplehours ago. It's pretty interesting. They
recently received the visit from Nebraska's largestnative snake species, a bull snake tangled

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in plastic mesh fencing. After cuttinghim loose and mitigating a rather unpleasant maggot
situation that doesn't sound good. Theveterinary team took radiographs to ensure there's no
internal injuries. Despite some superficial cutsand abrasions, he's been able to heal
up nicely and relax in our herbor herb nursery, which is for reptiles,
of course, until his release backinto the wild. He is a

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lucky snake and we're so grateful tohis rescuers. Bull snakes can reach length
of over eight feet. When threatened, a bull snake will react by hissing
loudly, coiled up in an scurve, flattening its head and raising its
tail, shaking it like a rattlesnake. Despite the similarities. However, bull
snakes are non venomous. They postno actual harm to people. So this
is a big guy. Like,let me show you this guy. Here's

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a photo. Here's a photo,Matt, and take a look at that
guy and take a peek. Yeah, it's a decent sized snake. Yeah,
so if you found that thing inyour yard, what do you do?
Keep my distance? You're kind ofworried that is this guy living here?
Now? Yeah, I'd keep mydistance. I'd take a picture,
I'd do some googling to see ifwe're talking about a poisonous snake. And
then that you mean a venomous snake. Yeah, snakes aren't poisonous. They're

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venomous, venomous, and that changesthing. Yeah. Poisonous is when you
eat something and you get poisoned.Venomous as if they try to eat you
and they inject you with the venom. Is it bad that I kind of
want to go find one. Iwant to be Nebraska severwin, let's just
call it what it is. Iwant to find the porcupines. I want
to find a beaver. I justwant to go find every possible bird,
right, I love sitting and watchingthe cranes. By the way, have

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you seen the cranes? Sure?Those guys are awesome santill, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, thoseare awesome looking birds. I don't see
those and where I came from.So yeah, if anybody's got a bull
snake that they've seen, let meknow where, because I'm kind of intrigued.
I want to find an eight football snake somewhere in the wild.
I'm not going to touch it.I just want to see it. I
have those garter snakes that are livingin my backyard. No disrespect to those

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guys. They don't quite have thesame effect as like an eight foot bull
snake might. But you can callin four roh two five five eight eleven
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news Radio eleven ten kfab Emery's songerShare It with Someone you Love on news
radio eleven ten kfab. Can youimagine like a snake's mouth and throat over

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your torso like a snake that youknow, a thick snake, but like
they'd have to widen their mouth andtheir throat so much to be able to
fit you in it. I meanThe same goes for when they eat,
you know, livestock, and theyget livestock. Right. Well, this
from mister Google. Pythons can killa human in minutes and swallow them in
an hour. What Yeah, thisis what mister Google says. The length

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of time it takes to watch anepisode of Game of Thrones is about the
time it takes for a reticulated pythonto kill and swallow a human. Death
comes quickly, not ites Cornell professordoctor Harry W. Green. Ooh,
Harry W. Harry W. Green. Okay, well that's interesting. Well
this got me thinking about the biggestthanks you're going to find in Nebraska,

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which are bull snakes. I haven'tactually seen one in person before, at
least not in the wild. Curtisis on a full line four, two,
five, five, eight, eleventen. Curtis, you got some
help for me today. Yeah.There's a cemetery just west of Milligan.
Used to handig graves there back inthe day. My uncle and cousins and
I we always call it the snakeCemetery. It's actually called the Bohemian Cemetery.
About a mile west of Milligan,Nebraska, off the Highway forty one

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and you'd see snakes there all thetime, in a big, big bull
snake. Interesting, is there thereconditions conducive to that? Is there like
hills that they live in or rocksthat they can live under? How like,
what about that do you think makesthat a haven for them? I
think the country side is pretty hillyand then there's a pond lake that dry
up times of year, but it'sthat place. You've never seen any more

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snakes there than you do in thatplace, and there get to be pretty
big bull snakes and with your pythonsnakes, yeah, in the Marine Corps.
I went to jungle warpa train inCambodia and there's pythons and cobras and
snakes get pretty big over there.There's nothing to you know, they're you
know, indigenous to that area,and there's the lack of people in the
area or you know, there's noone around, so there's nothing to stop

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them, nothing to I guess keepthem in check per se to get that
big, I mean, they're justthey get huge. Wow. Okay,
very interesting mea. My my sisteractually lived in Cambody for six months but
did not report a snake siding.So this is why Steve Irwin had to
go all over the world to findall these interesting animals. Curtis appreciates the
call them in thank you you wantto go snak hunting with me? And

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by snak hunting, I'm not tryingto kill snakes, I'm trying to go
find them so I can like takepictures, video and experience what it's like
to be around one live right andin the wild. I would as long
as we had a survival plan,you know, like in worst case scenario
kind of plan. We're looking forbull snakes, not pythons. Are bull

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snakes venomous? No? Oh,well, yeah, let's go. Yeah.
I don't. I don't think likethey're not. They're they're kind of
more of an overpowering species as well. They don't like to do the squeeze
squeeze, but you know, theytake out your rodents probably, I don't
know. More more research is goingto be done on that as well.
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