I made the mistake of inviting a spider onto my hand before it disappeared into the crack next to the oven. I was not prepared to feel a spider on my hand. Not prepared at all. As soon as its 8 little legs touched my palm I reflexively yeeted it across the room - and now I don't just have a spider hiding in the room; but a spider with motive. If this is the last comment I write, you know who dunnit
As someone with SEVERE arachnophobia who has been held captive in the corner of my bathroom before by a small house spider for hours until my husband rescued me - I think the people of Australia deserve to be recognized for their strength, courage and fearlessness for the absolute alien creatures of mass quantities and size they deal with on the daily. I simply could not! If my husband ever gets transferred there - it's the day I file for divorce. 😂
@@goodscharlotte As much as I hate dealing with our UK spiders and insects I still don't think we have the right to kill them just because they are scary or annoying. I however, can understand using deadly force on venomous critters. "Safely removing" something with venom is for profesionals only and I would resort to the broom or poison. Out of curiosity, would those big spiders be dangerous to humans?
@@barbara184 you don't understand agoraphobia. It doesn't matter if it's venomous or not, every spider looks venomous & like it's fixing to jump on you. If i lost a spider in my house (big or little, venomous or not) I'd leave & have the exterminator out, wouldn't be able to go back in until it was gone. I don't live in Australia, so I don't know much about huntsman, but i think they are venomous. However I live in the country, in one of the top states for fiddle backs & every spider looks like a fiddle back from several feet away. Also, it doesn't matter if it's venomous, it's causing me harm by giving me a jump scare that'd rival a known serial kil ler & making my heart skip beats as I sweat out all my fluids and shake uncontrollably whilst fighting the urge to both throw up and urinate. Agoraphobia isn't just a fear of spiders, it's an irrational fear that sends us in to immediate and undeniable frozen panic. And I say this as a nurse who has seen horrible things working in trauma. Blood, guts, mangled things no problem, a tiny spider i 'know' isn't venomous. 💀 if you've read this far, bless you, and you're a better human than me. Have a good'n y'all💜 stay safe
We have huntsman spiders here in Florida, and because my mom is very afraid of spiders, I grew up having to do battle with these big guys. They gallop like eight-legged horses lol
Them saying : "it's Friday!" when it's mid-day Thursday in the US is gonna hurt so many American brains, even though our country has 4 main time zones!!!!! 😁🤣
I was sitting on the lounge with my dog the other night when a huntsman (around the same size as the one in that bathroom video) and it jumped on me out of no where, I freaked, the dog jumped off the lounge and I just reacted and hit the spider with my hand. I half connected, it stopped, then jumped away and under the lounge. So I grabbed the insect spray and just sprayed under the lounge but didn't see it. I had to go to the bathroom while I was up and walked in and there is another bloody huntsman in there. I grabbed the insect spray and pretty much coated it and it just looked at me as if say "is that it??" so then I had to hit it with the can. The can itself works better at killing spiders than the spray inside it. When I went back to the lounge I found the other spider dying just under the lounge. Victory!!!
I’ve had a huntsmen spanning 30 cm across in my kids bedroom chillin in the corner for 3 days. We named him Geoff. Gonna make him pay rent soon, but he’s real sweet so I don’t want to put that stress on him
They are the best spiders, we love ours too! Fun fact I caught one eating a piece of leftover corn on a plate. Took pics of her when I first saw her and then later on after she had mostly eaten it.
Who needs crossbows when the humble flip-flops (aka thongs) on our feet can be so lethal? I sometimes wonder if that's why so many Aussies love wearing thongs / Birkenstocks. We're armed and dangerous.
If you want to be tripped out by spiders, walk along a flooding river and see what happens. When the Brisbane river was flooding in 2011, I went down to check the level and thousands of spiders were coming up the embankment, across the path and wanted to climb the first high thing they saw…….my legs!!!! It looked just like a horror movie! 🕷️🕸️
You really don't see them that prolifically in my experience both rurally near the mountains and in the city. It's not as bad as people think. They're out there, but contact with the deadly creatures is negligible, honestly. Most of the time if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. It's all about co-existence. 😂
It's not as bad as you think. A few really dangerous snakes, I think one really bad spider and a few moderately dangerous other spiders, but other than that there's not much to worry about. They don't have to worry about cougars and bears and God preserve us, moose.
You don’t see many deadly animals here in Australia- I grew up on a farm and saw a few snakes right out in the bushland, other than that the most dangerous animal statistically in Australia is actually a horse.
As someone with severe arachnophobia, this is one of the only reasons i will not move to Australia despite how much i love it. Also currently cringing listening to this just for the spider talk. But i love you guys too much to abandon the episode lol
A girl who I lived with at uni, came home after a few days away, went to her room and started screaming the house down. There were several small spiders on her ceiling and I had to give her about 3 shots of straight vodka before she would calm down. We lived in England.
10:18 when there's a spider or similar on somebody, I'm always like "Oh you've got a leaf/twig/... on you" so they stay calm while I remove the spider. Of course that's only possible because I live in Germany and our most dangerous spiders are as painful as a wasp. Idk what I'd do in Australia😂😂
In the UK we don't have any native dangerous spiders but we do have a type of spider that lives in the home called the Giant House Spider which can get quite large. Yes, other countries have bigger and/or more dangerous spiders but they can still be a surprise!
I'm Canadian and had an Australian roommate while she was on exchange and she said we didn't have any snakes. I showed her a picture of a snake that is common in our area and she said, "Oh, I've seen those. I thought they were just big worms." When it gets to -40 C, I always think that I could have spiders and snakes and am a little bit grateful.
Always shake it out! Everything. I got stung by a scorpion that was in my button down shirt. I thought I’d shaken it enough…nope. It was in the armpit!!! SHAKE EVERYTHING
Did nobody else play with daddy longlegs as a kid? They're gentle and easy to grab/hold. They'll crawl around your hand or arm and they're super lightweight so it just tickles a lil.
No! When I was 2-3 years old, there was one crawling up my arm and it was terrifying. I was screaming but then mum basically flicked it and told me to calm down. On the other hand, my neighbour picked one up once by the legs and then it's legs fell off, that was funny
I’ve never played with any of them as a kid, but we’ve always had a few hanging out inside the laundry or somewhere in the house mainly to keep the more problematic ones out. We’ve always coexisted as tenants and housemates.
I used to have really bad arachnophobia, but was able to desensitize myself to it and can now handle spiders. My trip to Australia played a part in that. While visiting for two weeks and to attend SIL's wedding, I only saw one spider and evidence of one other (my husband says he went out of his way to prevent a few other encounters before I noticed them). While talking to his family and some of my SIL's in-laws the day before the wedding, I heard many wonderful and endearing stories about huntsmen in particular. Four years later, I had pet jumping spiders (talk about cuties!) until they died of old age (which is not that long for jumping spiders). Now, don't get me wrong, I still don't respond well to certain spiders or circumstances. However, I try to vaguely identify the species when I see one, which has saved many spiders. I am still very freaked out by black and brown widows and brown recluses, and react accordingly to them (or a spider I misidentify). I also react when spiders crawl on me, but the degree of that reaction is determined by the species and the situation we find ourselves in. Other than the aforementioned three species, most spiders in Florida are harmless and I am able to keep that at the back of mind when I have an encounter with a "nope nope" or "spooder." Now, crocodilians? Fuck that noise. I don't know what a phobia of that branch of animals is called, but I have it bad. I was the top candidate for a job I thought I wanted, but turned it down when I found out I would have to go into an enclosure with alligators to feed them. I refuse to swim in fresh water. When I see them on TV or in movies, my heart rate goes up (for example, I love watching "River Monsters," but I get uncomfortable and jumpy when murder logs make appearances). Yeah, that's a whole lot of NOPE from me.
Huntsman, funnel webs and the like are too big for a thong or croc to take them out with one hit. You need something with a sturdy sole and heel. Huntsman spiders are basically harmless they just get a rep and end up terrifying people on account of their size and choosing the opportune moment to wind up in your car, or on the ceiling and dropping on someone unexpectedly. But they can’t kill or overly hurt you, beyond a bite that might hurt a bit if it got you. Funnel webs, however, are an entirely different ballgame. Typically with spiders they mind their business and I mind mine, that’s our agreement and we coexist without too much issue. Funnel webs are the exception, only because they are deadly and the males are migratory during spring so they can be known to wind up inside or in gardens, swimming pools, etc, (usually looking for water sources) and you don’t want to miss and get bit, or presume it’s dead only to later have it up and vanish because it wasn’t actually dead.
There are two hacks that may keep spiders away. 1. Slide a bar of Irish Spring soap around your doors and windows or 2. Rub peppermint oil around them. Rodents and spiders hate the scent.
As a British, person Meredith sounds so american to me that I have no idea how you think she sounds English Then I think of Australia and New Zealand and you guys probably think the same thing😂
I'm Canadian and this doesn't stop me from wanting to visit Australia. We both have crazy weather, nature, animals, and smaller populations living in/on massive land masses. Also when a Australian (Aussie) says "F**k that's big" about a spider, you know it's not good.
The last couple summers where I live, here in Canada, it has been the summer of spider too. Its been AWFUL! They made webs ACROSS THE OPENING OF MY FRONT DOOR, I didn't realize and walked through it. I didnt use my front door for the rest of the summer and used a stick in the garage door to check for webs before I would leave......IF I even left the house. Because spiders were all over the vehicles, trees, siding and over hangs of the roof. There was no safe place to be outside so I honestly did stay inside, a lot ! XD
I once joked to an Australian friend that between the snakes and the spiders, the only way I could ever visit would be if she could arrange for an Armored Personnel Carrier, one that could be loaded with enough food and water for a couple weeks and then closed up and sealed air-tight, to meet me on the runway at the airport. I would then board the Carrier, and visit all the beautiful scenic places and historical sites in Australia, but only experience them from behind the safety of the Carrier's windshield, after which point I would drive back to the airport and only unseal the Carrier when it was time to board the plane back home!
I have arachnophobia, but when my best friend had a pretty big spider on her I just reached out, grabbed it with my fingers, and threw it in a random direction. It was the worst day of my life, but that is apparently how I react to a spider on a person.
Until they showed video of Toni doing shakas I thought she was saying "the shocker", idk if that's a thing in Australia but the shocker is VERY different here in the US 😂
Growing up at our house in Canberra during Summer I would do a huntsman patrol every morning - because there was always one somewhere - and then I would scream asking my Mum to do the whole spider-removal debacle. I'm still scarred from living in that house 😂
I call the person's name: "Joe. Don't move. There's a spider I'm going to knock if off you." IF, if the person wigs out, they are on their own, can't help you.
As a Canadian Tarantula keeper I would really like to help people get over their Arachnophobia but I understand it’s difficult. One thing I would like to say is that spiders aren’t aggressive/angry (they lack the ability to feel emotion) they just react to movement and defend themselves. They just want to live and eat. They’re actually really beautiful and interesting. 🖤
I live in Melbourne and I’ve seen more spiders in my house this summer than the entire three years I’ve lived here combined. It’s definitely a ✨spider summer✨ in Australia.
It would be such a crazy crossover to have James and Fuhad from Shxts&Gigs podcast and Toni and Ryan. James and Fuhad are doing their Australia tour soon and talked/made episodes about Australia’s wildlife. And this right there is exactly it, all 4 of them discussing how unreal Australia is 💀😭
9:09 My son did this to me, when he was maybe like 2. One time started just to stare at me, with such a serious look in his face. All of a sudden he slaps me really hard on the face. I screamed and asked what that was for and he told me there was a bug on my face.
I am battling hard with the fact that my biggest fear in the world is spiders and the fact that I recognize how amazing they are and how we should show them a lot of respect.
I'm an Australian with severe arachnophobia and I also live on a farm bordering right on the bush, so I've been doing some fencing and a huntsman just comes galloping out of nowhere and I end up losing a full 3.5kg into my pants.
I once glimpsed at my laundry basket and saw a spider on it. I freaked out and prepared myself mentally to smoosh it with something. When I was ready and got closer...mhmmm just a hole in my laundry bag. I've had 2 spiders drop from the ceiling and land on my face, woke me up, how? Not sure but I felt something land on my face, woke up and there was a spider 🤷♀️ And got bit by a spider once, again while sleeping, thought spiderwoman transformation would occur, but no, apparently I moved my arm in my sleep, had its' legs? stuck underneath my arm, it bit me, it ran away, and I had a tingly arm for an hour. All are household spiders here in Canada 🤷♀️🥴
As someone who has been bitten by a spider (Yellow Sac Spider) and came very close to losing the fingers on my left hand I am very appropriately concerned about and scared of spiders. Those monsters you all have to deal with is the stuff of my nightmares!!!
Every day, I thank God that I live in the UK. Our biggest spiders are mere babies compared to Aussie spiders. Australians are so brave. Or maybe they’re insane. What a crazy country.
Growing up every year dad would have to climb the palm trees and without fail he'd find a Bird-Eating Tarantula. Look it up if youre brave enough, you can imagine by its name how big it must be to eat birds
There is a video somewhere on UA-cam that shows one of these spiders (huntsmen) dragging a dead mouse up the side of the fridge to its corner of choice.
Used to get massive huntsmans every 2 weeks in my old unit (horrifying), just moved to a new apartment and there was a fist sized roach on the balcony slamming into the glass trying to get in, I can’t have peace 😀
I'm perhaps a little odd but I love spiders! ❤❤ My people hate it bc I won't let them kill them. My mum, on the other hand, PETRIFIED of the smallest and cutest spiders.
Guys I live in Adelaide and by cat has brought in two wolf spiders, a large cockroach and a grasshopper these past two weeks. One of the wolf spiders he brought into the bedroom at the base of the bed at like 3am.
BRO we had like 2 separate spider infestations in the past 2 months with a house spider and a huntsman having ceiling babies fucking everywhere - i wanna move to Antarctica
I will listen to but not watch fully today! That is the one thing keeping me from visiting my friends in Oz! Uuuuuuugh I'm so nervous about the spiders 😬😬😬☠️☠️ I'm out here in California
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"Skinkled Off" is a phrase I didn't know I was missing in my life. :)
Came here to say this!
Genuinely LOL'ed at this
I made the mistake of inviting a spider onto my hand before it disappeared into the crack next to the oven. I was not prepared to feel a spider on my hand. Not prepared at all. As soon as its 8 little legs touched my palm I reflexively yeeted it across the room - and now I don't just have a spider hiding in the room; but a spider with motive. If this is the last comment I write, you know who dunnit
As someone with SEVERE arachnophobia who has been held captive in the corner of my bathroom before by a small house spider for hours until my husband rescued me - I think the people of Australia deserve to be recognized for their strength, courage and fearlessness for the absolute alien creatures of mass quantities and size they deal with on the daily. I simply could not! If my husband ever gets transferred there - it's the day I file for divorce. 😂
Wasp spray is deadly to spiders & accurate from ~10 feet away! I keep cans in every room for this reason exactly!
@@goodscharlotte As much as I hate dealing with our UK spiders and insects I still don't think we have the right to kill them just because they are scary or annoying. I however, can understand using deadly force on venomous critters. "Safely removing" something with venom is for profesionals only and I would resort to the broom or poison. Out of curiosity, would those big spiders be dangerous to humans?
@@barbara184 you don't understand agoraphobia. It doesn't matter if it's venomous or not, every spider looks venomous & like it's fixing to jump on you. If i lost a spider in my house (big or little, venomous or not) I'd leave & have the exterminator out, wouldn't be able to go back in until it was gone. I don't live in Australia, so I don't know much about huntsman, but i think they are venomous. However I live in the country, in one of the top states for fiddle backs & every spider looks like a fiddle back from several feet away.
Also, it doesn't matter if it's venomous, it's causing me harm by giving me a jump scare that'd rival a known serial kil ler & making my heart skip beats as I sweat out all my fluids and shake uncontrollably whilst fighting the urge to both throw up and urinate.
Agoraphobia isn't just a fear of spiders, it's an irrational fear that sends us in to immediate and undeniable frozen panic. And I say this as a nurse who has seen horrible things working in trauma. Blood, guts, mangled things no problem, a tiny spider i 'know' isn't venomous. 💀
if you've read this far, bless you, and you're a better human than me.
Have a good'n y'all💜 stay safe
Good news, you can find huntsmen in Florida too. You don't need to go all the way across the Pacific.
Now you see why the UK used Ozzie as a penal colony.
We have huntsman spiders here in Florida, and because my mom is very afraid of spiders, I grew up having to do battle with these big guys. They gallop like eight-legged horses lol
Honestly, so many people just let them live in the house. They are pretty docile and keep to themselves and they'll kill tons of pests for you
now all I can think about is 8-legged horses
HATE that verb “gallop” is for horses, how big are these spiders?!
@@crimsonturtle2675 About the size of an adult human hand.
@@crimsonturtle2675it can also be used for dogs since they have the same gaits
Give me a snake or mouse any day. Hell to the NO for spiders
Especially spiders that can eat snakes and mice!!
@@MorbidKat or birds
Today's episode of Tony and Ryan is sponsored by Birkenstock!
If you give a croc, don't use a croc. Use a Birkenstock!
Going in, fully aware of my phobia, read the warning, continues to watch.. why am I like this :(
because they soften the blow of the spiders, with their jokes and funny stories.
Literally I'm about to go to bed lmao
I had to battle 3 days in a row, a hand sized spider, in the Dominican Republic… I was about to burn the house down 😂😂
So what’s the situation now is that spider the new owner of the house and you’re moving countries ? 😂
@ you absolutely called it! Flew back to the US the next day, and haven’t stepped back in the country since 😆😆
It's 7 degrees here and 10 inches of snow but these videos still have me checking by my feet, the wall behind me lol just in case
Same! And I’m I’m Oklahoma hahaha
Them saying : "it's Friday!" when it's mid-day Thursday in the US is gonna hurt so many American brains, even though our country has 4 main time zones!!!!! 😁🤣
Omg, I was just telling my cousin that I felt dumb after realizing They are in Australia & today IS my vacation day
Hi from tomorrow
The shock I get from every unexpected spider picture on the internet is going to be the actual death of me. One day my heart will just stop dead 🙈🤣
I once, at a picnic, heard a friend ask another one "how afraid are you of bees?" Before deciding how to proceed
😂😂😂 my problem is if they even say “don’t move” or “hold on there’s a bug” I’m like WHERE and start freaking the f out
What a diplomat. :D
"Battle birk" is everything 😂
I was sitting on the lounge with my dog the other night when a huntsman (around the same size as the one in that bathroom video) and it jumped on me out of no where, I freaked, the dog jumped off the lounge and I just reacted and hit the spider with my hand. I half connected, it stopped, then jumped away and under the lounge. So I grabbed the insect spray and just sprayed under the lounge but didn't see it.
I had to go to the bathroom while I was up and walked in and there is another bloody huntsman in there. I grabbed the insect spray and pretty much coated it and it just looked at me as if say "is that it??" so then I had to hit it with the can. The can itself works better at killing spiders than the spray inside it. When I went back to the lounge I found the other spider dying just under the lounge. Victory!!!
I’ve had a huntsmen spanning 30 cm across in my kids bedroom chillin in the corner for 3 days. We named him Geoff. Gonna make him pay rent soon, but he’s real sweet so I don’t want to put that stress on him
Your kid trying to sleep staring at the corner like 👁️👄👁️
I'm a little invested in Geoff's story arc now, to be honest.
I misread “spanning” as “spinning” and my dumbass was immediately like “they breakdance now? That’s so much worse,” lol.
They are the best spiders, we love ours too! Fun fact I caught one eating a piece of leftover corn on a plate. Took pics of her when I first saw her and then later on after she had mostly eaten it.
@angiadcock8196 only Australian that can breakdance.w
Sounds like everyone in Australia needs to buy Crossbows and carry it around like "Daryl Dixon" of "The Walking Dead".
Who needs crossbows when the humble flip-flops (aka thongs) on our feet can be so lethal? I sometimes wonder if that's why so many Aussies love wearing thongs / Birkenstocks. We're armed and dangerous.
I'm all good for spiders instead I've got 7 tarantulas, one Goliath 😂😂
I’m in the USA (Texas), and I wish I could go to the game/match! I adore every podcast y’all come out with! Love y’all so very much!!!
Howdy from Texas, too!
@@KristenRowenPliske Hello! I’m Lexi! Nice to meet a fellow Texan fan!!!
If you want to be tripped out by spiders, walk along a flooding river and see what happens. When the Brisbane river was flooding in 2011, I went down to check the level and thousands of spiders were coming up the embankment, across the path and wanted to climb the first high thing they saw…….my legs!!!! It looked just like a horror movie! 🕷️🕸️
I'd never recover from that lol
I was just innocently scrolling through the comments. Cheers for my next night terror 😂
@ sorry. 😬
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE😂
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And so this is why if I ever went to Australia, top of my packing list would be a can of hairspray and a lighter. 🤷♀️
Wasp spray is deadly to spiders, and accurate at about 10 feet! Hope this helps. ✌🏻
This could’ve been titled like a Harry Potter book. “Toni Lodge: The Croc and the Spider” 😂
The amount of deadly animals in Australia would completely freak me out. I mean, how can you sleep in peace?
You really don't see them that prolifically in my experience both rurally near the mountains and in the city. It's not as bad as people think. They're out there, but contact with the deadly creatures is negligible, honestly. Most of the time if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. It's all about co-existence. 😂
We don't sleep
It's not as bad as you think. A few really dangerous snakes, I think one really bad spider and a few moderately dangerous other spiders, but other than that there's not much to worry about. They don't have to worry about cougars and bears and God preserve us, moose.
@Alex-dh2cx Agreed. People who have never lived in Australia think it's more dramatic than it really is lol
You don’t see many deadly animals here in Australia- I grew up on a farm and saw a few snakes right out in the bushland, other than that the most dangerous animal statistically in Australia is actually a horse.
As someone with severe arachnophobia, this is one of the only reasons i will not move to Australia despite how much i love it. Also currently cringing listening to this just for the spider talk. But i love you guys too much to abandon the episode lol
A girl who I lived with at uni, came home after a few days away, went to her room and started screaming the house down. There were several small spiders on her ceiling and I had to give her about 3 shots of straight vodka before she would calm down. We lived in England.
Battle Birk 😄
10:18 when there's a spider or similar on somebody, I'm always like "Oh you've got a leaf/twig/... on you" so they stay calm while I remove the spider.
Of course that's only possible because I live in Germany and our most dangerous spiders are as painful as a wasp. Idk what I'd do in Australia😂😂
And now I have to patiently wait for the opportunity to use "skinkled off"
In the UK we don't have any native dangerous spiders but we do have a type of spider that lives in the home called the Giant House Spider which can get quite large. Yes, other countries have bigger and/or more dangerous spiders but they can still be a surprise!
This podcast is such a pocket of joy in my life
Can’t hear the word Birkenstock without thinking about the guy who once described them as “the ugly sandals lesbians wear “ on a game show
😂😂😂
I'm Canadian and had an Australian roommate while she was on exchange and she said we didn't have any snakes. I showed her a picture of a snake that is common in our area and she said, "Oh, I've seen those. I thought they were just big worms." When it gets to -40 C, I always think that I could have spiders and snakes and am a little bit grateful.
I can relate to quickly taking off a shoe living in Tucson with all the scorpions 🦂. That and shaking my shoes before putting them on.
Always shake it out! Everything. I got stung by a scorpion that was in my button down shirt. I thought I’d shaken it enough…nope. It was in the armpit!!! SHAKE EVERYTHING
i wouldn't survive in a place where spiders that big are all over, no thanks
Did nobody else play with daddy longlegs as a kid? They're gentle and easy to grab/hold. They'll crawl around your hand or arm and they're super lightweight so it just tickles a lil.
No! When I was 2-3 years old, there was one crawling up my arm and it was terrifying. I was screaming but then mum basically flicked it and told me to calm down.
On the other hand, my neighbour picked one up once by the legs and then it's legs fell off, that was funny
I used to play with them as a kid also!
I’ve never played with any of them as a kid, but we’ve always had a few hanging out inside the laundry or somewhere in the house mainly to keep the more problematic ones out. We’ve always coexisted as tenants and housemates.
“Battle Birk” is the only thing I’m calling Birkenstocks from now on
Me: has arachnophobia
Toni and Ryan video:
Me: Perfect
I used to have really bad arachnophobia, but was able to desensitize myself to it and can now handle spiders. My trip to Australia played a part in that.
While visiting for two weeks and to attend SIL's wedding, I only saw one spider and evidence of one other (my husband says he went out of his way to prevent a few other encounters before I noticed them). While talking to his family and some of my SIL's in-laws the day before the wedding, I heard many wonderful and endearing stories about huntsmen in particular. Four years later, I had pet jumping spiders (talk about cuties!) until they died of old age (which is not that long for jumping spiders).
Now, don't get me wrong, I still don't respond well to certain spiders or circumstances. However, I try to vaguely identify the species when I see one, which has saved many spiders. I am still very freaked out by black and brown widows and brown recluses, and react accordingly to them (or a spider I misidentify). I also react when spiders crawl on me, but the degree of that reaction is determined by the species and the situation we find ourselves in. Other than the aforementioned three species, most spiders in Florida are harmless and I am able to keep that at the back of mind when I have an encounter with a "nope nope" or "spooder."
Now, crocodilians? Fuck that noise. I don't know what a phobia of that branch of animals is called, but I have it bad. I was the top candidate for a job I thought I wanted, but turned it down when I found out I would have to go into an enclosure with alligators to feed them. I refuse to swim in fresh water. When I see them on TV or in movies, my heart rate goes up (for example, I love watching "River Monsters," but I get uncomfortable and jumpy when murder logs make appearances). Yeah, that's a whole lot of NOPE from me.
What do you mean a croc is not enough? 😂 All spiders where I live can be killed with a flip flop!!! I am officially terrified!😭
Huntsman, funnel webs and the like are too big for a thong or croc to take them out with one hit. You need something with a sturdy sole and heel. Huntsman spiders are basically harmless they just get a rep and end up terrifying people on account of their size and choosing the opportune moment to wind up in your car, or on the ceiling and dropping on someone unexpectedly. But they can’t kill or overly hurt you, beyond a bite that might hurt a bit if it got you. Funnel webs, however, are an entirely different ballgame. Typically with spiders they mind their business and I mind mine, that’s our agreement and we coexist without too much issue. Funnel webs are the exception, only because they are deadly and the males are migratory during spring so they can be known to wind up inside or in gardens, swimming pools, etc, (usually looking for water sources) and you don’t want to miss and get bit, or presume it’s dead only to later have it up and vanish because it wasn’t actually dead.
Aww when Ryan said “but that’s more about me” it sounded like my dad! I love your show!
Sports mode on Crocs is funny. We call shift into 4 wheel-drive
Toni and Ryan the Unnecessary Carnage episode
I love the Toni and Ryan podcast but I’m definitely going to struggling my way through this episode lol
There are two hacks that may keep spiders away. 1. Slide a bar of Irish Spring soap around your doors and windows or 2. Rub peppermint oil around them. Rodents and spiders hate the scent.
As a British, person Meredith sounds so american to me that I have no idea how you think she sounds English
Then I think of Australia and New Zealand and you guys probably think the same thing😂
I put off watching this all day. I'm terrified of spiders...and live in Australia!
I had a huge wolf spider (the size of my hand) crawl in the window whilst driving and take up residence in the air vent
I'm Canadian and this doesn't stop me from wanting to visit Australia. We both have crazy weather, nature, animals, and smaller populations living in/on massive land masses.
Also when a Australian (Aussie) says "F**k that's big" about a spider, you know it's not good.
The last couple summers where I live, here in Canada, it has been the summer of spider too. Its been AWFUL! They made webs ACROSS THE OPENING OF MY FRONT DOOR, I didn't realize and walked through it. I didnt use my front door for the rest of the summer and used a stick in the garage door to check for webs before I would leave......IF I even left the house. Because spiders were all over the vehicles, trees, siding and over hangs of the roof. There was no safe place to be outside so I honestly did stay inside, a lot ! XD
Omg honestly though. I'm in NB and we'd be swirling up web on a stick like it was cotton candy every time we had to go somewhere 🤮
@@Frosted_Picasso Oh no way! That is wild its like that there too, I am in Alberta!
I once joked to an Australian friend that between the snakes and the spiders, the only way I could ever visit would be if she could arrange for an Armored Personnel Carrier, one that could be loaded with enough food and water for a couple weeks and then closed up and sealed air-tight, to meet me on the runway at the airport. I would then board the Carrier, and visit all the beautiful scenic places and historical sites in Australia, but only experience them from behind the safety of the Carrier's windshield, after which point I would drive back to the airport and only unseal the Carrier when it was time to board the plane back home!
That’s how many people across the globe feel about going to the US with all your gun violence.
I am literally mortified after all the spider talk. I may never be the same again.😳😳😳😳😳😳
I know it’s winter here in the US but last summer was eerily calm for spiders. It was mostly stink bugs and ladybugs 😅
Cats are fearless 😂
I have arachnophobia, but when my best friend had a pretty big spider on her I just reached out, grabbed it with my fingers, and threw it in a random direction. It was the worst day of my life, but that is apparently how I react to a spider on a person.
Man…Australians are just built different! I admire y’all because I could never
Until they showed video of Toni doing shakas I thought she was saying "the shocker", idk if that's a thing in Australia but the shocker is VERY different here in the US 😂
When he said summer of spiders. My whole body did a shiver add Australia spiders nope nope nope. 🙅♀️
Growing up at our house in Canberra during Summer I would do a huntsman patrol every morning - because there was always one somewhere - and then I would scream asking my Mum to do the whole spider-removal debacle. I'm still scarred from living in that house 😂
I call the person's name: "Joe. Don't move. There's a spider I'm going to knock if off you." IF, if the person wigs out, they are on their own, can't help you.
As a Canadian Tarantula keeper I would really like to help people get over their Arachnophobia but I understand it’s difficult. One thing I would like to say is that spiders aren’t aggressive/angry (they lack the ability to feel emotion) they just react to movement and defend themselves. They just want to live and eat. They’re actually really beautiful and interesting. 🖤
Yesterday I heard the burp in the car but I told myself I needed to see it on UA-cam and it’s even funnier 😂
I live in Melbourne and I’ve seen more spiders in my house this summer than the entire three years I’ve lived here combined.
It’s definitely a ✨spider summer✨ in Australia.
In Louisiana, the wolf spiders JUMP AT YOU. The shrieks elicited are not pretty. ***** shudder *****
It would be such a crazy crossover to have James and Fuhad from Shxts&Gigs podcast and Toni and Ryan. James and Fuhad are doing their Australia tour soon and talked/made episodes about Australia’s wildlife. And this right there is exactly it, all 4 of them discussing how unreal Australia is 💀😭
I also don't give people the full info, I forget they are not also in my head 😂
As someone scared of spiders - whack me first; let me ask questions later 😂
Love you guys I’m watching from North Wales 🏴
Ryan ordering tickets like 1 million seems a reasonable price
9:09 My son did this to me, when he was maybe like 2. One time started just to stare at me, with such a serious look in his face. All of a sudden he slaps me really hard on the face. I screamed and asked what that was for and he told me there was a bug on my face.
I am battling hard with the fact that my biggest fear in the world is spiders and the fact that I recognize how amazing they are and how we should show them a lot of respect.
I'm an Australian with severe arachnophobia and I also live on a farm bordering right on the bush, so I've been doing some fencing and a huntsman just comes galloping out of nowhere and I end up losing a full 3.5kg into my pants.
I’m really glad you liked the drawing of pip and BJ!!
I once glimpsed at my laundry basket and saw a spider on it. I freaked out and prepared myself mentally to smoosh it with something. When I was ready and got closer...mhmmm just a hole in my laundry bag.
I've had 2 spiders drop from the ceiling and land on my face, woke me up, how? Not sure but I felt something land on my face, woke up and there was a spider 🤷♀️
And got bit by a spider once, again while sleeping, thought spiderwoman transformation would occur, but no, apparently I moved my arm in my sleep, had its' legs? stuck underneath my arm, it bit me, it ran away, and I had a tingly arm for an hour.
All are household spiders here in Canada 🤷♀️🥴
As someone who has been bitten by a spider (Yellow Sac Spider) and came very close to losing the fingers on my left hand I am very appropriately concerned about and scared of spiders. Those monsters you all have to deal with is the stuff of my nightmares!!!
Crocs in 4*4😂
Every day, I thank God that I live in the UK. Our biggest spiders are mere babies compared to Aussie spiders. Australians are so brave. Or maybe they’re insane. What a crazy country.
Growing up every year dad would have to climb the palm trees and without fail he'd find a Bird-Eating Tarantula. Look it up if youre brave enough, you can imagine by its name how big it must be to eat birds
There is a video somewhere on UA-cam that shows one of these spiders (huntsmen) dragging a dead mouse up the side of the fridge to its corner of choice.
My gramma says she can never go back to visit her family lol she can’t handle the spiders anymore lol
Used to get massive huntsmans every 2 weeks in my old unit (horrifying), just moved to a new apartment and there was a fist sized roach on the balcony slamming into the glass trying to get in, I can’t have peace 😀
i told my best friend there was a spider on her arm once and she immediately panicked and tried to rub it onto me instead
I could Never. I won't even visit😂
5:33 *you sacrificed a birkingstop*
Thank you ❤ I needed a laugh.
25:20 the censor😂😂😂
The google voice sounds like tipsy Gru from despicable me 😂
that rash on tonis arm kinda looks like measles or smth bro you good?
I’m watching this as a form of exposure therapy. Thank god I live in frozen Canada in a land locked province 😂
Omg I live in Arizona and that looks like here! Just call us mini Australia lol 😂
Love Thursday night episodes!
It’s birken STOCK??? I always thought it was birken SOCK and now I know at near 30 years of age, I have no idea what a birken stock…??? Is 😭😭😭😭🤧
Literally translated ( it's german) it means Birch stick. But I don't know if it is a real name or because of the look or materials🤔?!
😂😂😂
That duck woman sounds 100% American. Not a hint of English heard.
I'm perhaps a little odd but I love spiders! ❤❤ My people hate it bc I won't let them kill them. My mum, on the other hand, PETRIFIED of the smallest and cutest spiders.
In Sweden we don't have any poisonous spiders. Our's are really small but they still scare me. I would not last a day in the summer in Australia 😂
Guys I live in Adelaide and by cat has brought in two wolf spiders, a large cockroach and a grasshopper these past two weeks. One of the wolf spiders he brought into the bedroom at the base of the bed at like 3am.
BRO we had like 2 separate spider infestations in the past 2 months with a house spider and a huntsman having ceiling babies fucking everywhere - i wanna move to Antarctica
I love you guys, you always make me laugh 🤣 ❤
Blundstones usually have enough heft
If this isn't the new advertisement for Birkenstock then I have lost faith in everything.
I will listen to but not watch fully today! That is the one thing keeping me from visiting my friends in Oz! Uuuuuuugh I'm so nervous about the spiders 😬😬😬☠️☠️ I'm out here in California
We are having spiders a-go-go in NZ but luckily we are venom free 😮
Forgot it's summer over yonder. I am freezing!
My hubby was on Jerry Springer back in the day there is a UA-cam video with clips of it lol
What cringe thing was he on for? 😂