The John Batchelor Show

S8 Ep431: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Six cockatoos are scouting Zakis's roof and solar panels, behaving similarly to when they destroyed a neighbor's house. His dog Dallas cannot see them from the veranda to scare them off. Zakis considers using a drone to deter the bird

S8 Ep431: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. England captain Ben Stokes was hit in the face by a cricket ball during training, narrowly missing his eye but causing significant bruising. The conversation turns to the English team's heavy drinking culture during the Ashes, which

S8 Ep431: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. A juvenile brown snake surprised commuters at Riverston station, causing a cyclist to flee in panic. However, a man wearing shorts and lacking safety gear calmly picked up the venomous snake and moved it, displaying professional handE

S8 Ep431: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. While New England freezes, Sydney enjoys mild 70°F temperatures and rain following a heatwave. Conversely, Western Australia faces Tropical Cyclone Mitchell, a Category 3 storm threatening Karratha with high winds and storm surges. Lo

S8 Ep430: Thomas Halliday concludes with the climate-driven Ordovician mass extinction, the Cambrian explosion of modern animal body plans in China featuring predators like Omnidens, and the Ediacaran era's strange soft-bodied organisms preceding complex life.