The spider bit was effective with its surprise (to me anyway!) ending, I guess. Having a sister-in-law with a 20-year vet career in a large city , I listened to all this somewhat sensitively, I suppose. Agree with KF about hair on spiders! He wouldn’t care for the Down Under cousin to the tarantula, which is equally large but fawn-colored, always appears in pairs and thankfully has mandibles too small to bite a human, so we’ve done a lot of observing. One day en route to school a rogue one that had got in the car quite suddenly strode onto the back of the driver seat headrest, not two feet from young son’s face. His screaming nearly sent me off the road, for sure, and no amount of verbal assurance as I steered the car, pulled over and stopped to get him out could convince him that ITS MANDIBLES ARE IN FACT TOO SMALL TO BITE YOU, SON! Coming upon one or two of these on the other side of the sliding glass patio door early in the morning is also a treat. Anyway, thanks for the heads-up that wallabies, poor things, are apparently now a pet stock in the USA? I think I ‘ll start a movement to stir public outrage about that – some Aussie must really need to make money, to debase one of the nation’s iconic marsupials this way. In their native land wallabies don’t often have to face or flee dogs so it is heartbreaking to think of the dangers that await any bought by ignorant and careless Americans. Unless that was a joke itself – please advise.
Thank you Kendall. I nearly drove off the road Saturday morning when it aired, I was laughing so hard. It was a pleasure to hear it again.
The spider bit was effective with its surprise (to me anyway!) ending, I guess. Having a sister-in-law with a 20-year vet career in a large city , I listened to all this somewhat sensitively, I suppose. Agree with KF about hair on spiders! He wouldn’t care for the Down Under cousin to the tarantula, which is equally large but fawn-colored, always appears in pairs and thankfully has mandibles too small to bite a human, so we’ve done a lot of observing. One day en route to school a rogue one that had got in the car quite suddenly strode onto the back of the driver seat headrest, not two feet from young son’s face. His screaming nearly sent me off the road, for sure, and no amount of verbal assurance as I steered the car, pulled over and stopped to get him out could convince him that ITS MANDIBLES ARE IN FACT TOO SMALL TO BITE YOU, SON! Coming upon one or two of these on the other side of the sliding glass patio door early in the morning is also a treat. Anyway, thanks for the heads-up that wallabies, poor things, are apparently now a pet stock in the USA? I think I ‘ll start a movement to stir public outrage about that – some Aussie must really need to make money, to debase one of the nation’s iconic marsupials this way. In their native land wallabies don’t often have to face or flee dogs so it is heartbreaking to think of the dangers that await any bought by ignorant and careless Americans. Unless that was a joke itself – please advise.
I’ve always loved this show; this episode is one of the best. Thanks for posting!