The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: I've Been a Nerd My Whole Life

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

Florida Panthers' color commentator, Randy Moller, joins the show to discuss the Cats' second-straight appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals. Does Randy have enough room on his dinghy for the show in case of a parade? Plus, Jess watched a docuseries on Ashley Madison over the weekend and was left completely unsatisfied at the lack of a resolution. Whatever happened to just going to a bar to cheat on your wife? Then, Ron Magill joins us for his weekly animal segment to discuss the Pride of a Lion, upcoming Father's Day, a snake in Billy's front yard and the emergence of curly-tail lizards in South Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Yes. I was told to speak very loudly because there's a chance that Randy can't hear us. Randy, is this loud enough? I can hear you, Stu Gotts, I can hear you. Yeah. How are you, buddy? Oh, never better. I haven't been this excited since I stole my first car.

Where are you right now? I'm at my place. I got the on the intercoastal. The boat slipped right there. The beach is right across the street. Who's better than you, Randy? Hey, Moles. It's a beautiful day in South Florida, so I thought the lighting out here is a lot better than in my place, in my house. Right. A place that never has beautiful days

is Edmonton. And so I am wondering, Randy Moller, if you were secretly rooting, because of travel, if you were rooting for the Dallas Stars to play the Panthers in the Stanley Cup finals. Well, no, not really. You know what? Because my roots are back there, my hometown's only an hour and a half south of Edmonton in Red Deer. I was hoping that an Edmonton Canadian team would be in the finals against the Panthers, and hey, we got our wish and that.

But you know where my loyalty lies right now, and that is that's what the Florida Panthers and that. But I'm excited as well because this test will be a real test and the Panthers are going up to up against the the world's best hockey player undisputed in Connor McDavid so you've got to beat the best in order to be the best and and this is going to be a true test for the Panthers. Randy I want you to speak for all of Canada is this the kind of situation where the entire nation gets behind Edmonton now? Except Calgary? Or is it a situation where Calgary, a rival, is like, I ain't rooting for Edmonton, I don't care

against who? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna get that a little bit because there's some really heated rivalries, as one of you guys mentioned about Calgary, a lot of hatred between the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers fans and even with Vancouver uh and that the the one thing they'll be in common guys is is there'll be at least 80 to 85 percent of the televisions in the country of Canada will be tuned to these games. I mean, you don't see that even for the only thing you probably see it is for the Super Bowl down here in the States. Everybody be watching whether you're going to be rooting for the Oilers or not. If you're up in Canada, but they're going to be watching and that's exciting for

me. I'm excited for them and I'm really excited for the Panthers and their fans down here. Randy, I want you to listen to Greg's explanation on why Conor McDavid is overrated. Greg, go ahead. Okay, okay. All right, hear me out. And I may be alone on this. Okay, I say over McJesus, the chosen one, the next Gretzky. It's been nine years. Great stats, but are they empty numbers? Nine years, and this is his first Stanley Cup, he hasn't raised the Cup yet. In that context only, is he overrated? I don't think you can, definitely, guys, he's not overrated with the talent that he has.

He's the most dynamic, the fastest player and be able to make plays at such a high level. No excuses, but it's his, a number of his years that he's been in Edmonton, like you mentioned nine years, Edmonton just didn't have the team. They didn't have the depth. They didn't have the depth. They didn't have the goal-tenning and that. And that's not his fault. And that it was kind of like a one-man band out there for a lot of years. Now they have a lot more depth and with Dry Cytl and Zach Hyman and Bouchard back on the point and that. I don't know if I agree with that. I think he's not overrated. And the thing is though, I will say about Conor McDavid, is you can be a fantastic player. There's been so many players in this league that have been elite level athletes, but until you win a Stanley Cup,

then there's always gonna be that asterisk on the, beside your name, because you can do whatever you want individual stats, but until you win a Stanley Cup, it doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter. Well, Randy, what is the glaring weakness that the Olas have that the Panthers can expose here? What was that? Go ahead one more time.

What is the glaring weakness that the Ola's have that the Panthers can expose? Well, you know, if you if you break it down and into segments, I think the Panthers have have the advantage in goaltending because Sergey Bobrasky and what he's done and the the advantage in goaltending because Sergey Bobrasky and what he's done in the maturity and the experience that he has. Stuart Skinner has played well for the Edmonton Oilers lately, but he struggled earlier in these playoffs. He was replaced for a couple of games. He had to regain his confidence and his style and that.

So I think goaltending. I think the Panthers depth on the third and fourth line, their physicality, the way that they were able to get past Tampa Bay, Boston, and a very lethal offensive team and the New York Rangers. I think that that bodes them well and gives them the advantage. The only disadvantage I think the Panthers have in this series is two things. Number one is the power play of the Edmonton Oilers, which is almost unstoppable. And number two is Conor McDavid. So they have to stay out of the penalty box, limit their power plays given to the Edmonton Oilers. And then number two is they've gotta somehow slow down Conor McDavid, get in a skating lane, bump him every time, not let him pass the puck at that high level of speed

that he's used to. And if they do those two things, they will win this series and they'll win the Stanley Cup. The only way that they're gonna lose is if Conor McDavid beats them and the Panthers beat themselves. Randy, these guys around here are telling me that the Panthers quote have to win this series after being in the final last year. I have the perspective more of this has been

really fun these two years. So I'm kind of going to find the perspective of how awesome this has been even if they lose this series. How do you feel about that? This Panther team is a lot different guys that went to the Stanley Cup finals last year. They were beat up when they met the Vegas Golden Knights. They just weren't the team that they are. They went out in the offseason. They got bigger. They got stronger more physical with Miko Nikola Nikko Nikola and and Oliver Ekman Larsen and then they got Kyle Oposo. They got Tarasenko. They got Stenland up the middle Lawrence up the middle. They're bigger and stronger You can't hardly compare this team last year to this year. This year and the expectations and the experience that they have.

They know what they have to do and that's their only motivation. They talked about it on day one at training camp that anything less than getting back to the finals will be a colossal failure. So that's the mindset that they have. Last year was a Cinderella story. They were just like they were on top of the world. I can't can't believe that we're in the finals. How did we get here? What this year they were determined and they know that they were the best team in the Eastern Conference and they proved it.

Talk about the importance of Sam Bennett. He's coming off of that hand injury and seeing that first goal in game six against the Rangers seeing that one-timer with that coming off of that hand injury and seeing that first goal in game six against the Rangers, seeing that one-timer with that coming off of that hand injury was pretty special. So talk about his impact coming up in the Stanley Cup final. Oh he is just a pure playoff performer. He proved it even before he got to the Panthers with the Calgary Flames, that's when he played his best hockey. And that he suits the Panthers system and the style of they play with the physicality. Everybody knows that the Panthers are the most physical team in the NHL.

They lead in hits, they lead in penalties. They're the best four-checking team in the NHL. And Sam Bennett leads that parade game after game night after night and he is an important cog. And we everybody in the Panther land are appreciative that he's got back in the lineup after having that injury. But if they lose a player as important as Sam Bennett boy that puts a real dent into what you're trying to accomplish. And that's to win the Stanley Cup.

Moll, speaking of parades, and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, but if the if the Panthers pull this off and there is a parade down Flamingo Boulevard through the Sawgrass Mall, past Ed Morse, of course, Flamingo Road and Flamingo Road, excuse me, that's a fine. And of course, Sawgrass for I am wondering Flamingo Road, excuse me, that's a fine. And of course Sawgrass Ford. I am wondering, are you the type of person, Randy, you have so much pull inside that organization, I want to create a float called the bandwagon and I want this show featured on said bandwagon. Can

you make it happen? Absolutely. Bandwagon, any wagon Pull your own wagon It'll be the biggest party that South Florida has ever seen the pan And I can't wait and over that to happen. I got my dinghy right out here. Whatever I'll lead the boat parade with my dinghy and that the motor's not working right now, but I'll lead the I'll lead the parade along the new river. I haven't heard anything. I don't think anybody wants to get ahead of themselves, but they will plan something. If this event happens, it will be something spectacular.

Who would you say would win the Consmite trophy at the end if the Panthers win? I think right now it's got to be Sergei Bobrowski. Roy, I mean... Forcing. Yeah, what he's done and what is it? It's nine of the last ten or ten of the last eleven games. He's allowed two or fewer goals. So that just that that stat just number one just put you right right on the leaderboard, I would think. But there's still a lot of hockey to be played, and we with the Conchucks and the Verheggis, Al Verheggi scores those huge goals. And then Alexander Barkov, I mean, he's just been a monster. And to go up against, as I mentioned, the top stars on Tampa Bay,

on Boston, on the Rangers, and almost single-handedly shut those players down with his play. If you're a casual hockey fan and you're watching the games, you don't really realize the importance and the input that Barkov has and the little things that he does, and he's on the right side of the puck and he wins those board battles and important draws and be in a position defensively and then lead the rush and that sometimes that goes under the radar and that but for true hockey

fans and the people that are going to be voting for this award, they know that he is the best two-way player in the NHL. It's amazing. It's not even up for discussion. It's amazing how quickly you said, Bob, two years ago, Roy and Mike wanted to bench Bob for Spencer Knight. Like, it's insane. And he did. Well, yeah.

These guys are tough to impress. I mean, they're fair weather fans, fans and yeah, you know, it's the same thing with Tua with the Dolphins when he has a couple of bad series in the game or whatever, everybody's calling for him to get replaced as well. So, but that's all part of sports. That's fun. And that but I said it guys, I said it three years ago I said if the Panthers are ever to win the Stanley Cup it'll be with Sergey Bobroski in goal and no other goaltender and

I think hopefully I'm going to be proven right on that one. Moles before we let you go would you rather have two at fifty five million dollars or Russell Wilson at $2 million? Well, that's a good one. I'm a fan of both of them. I, I'm a guys, I'm a big to a fan. I'm a big dolphin fan. I think that, uh, with the right weapons and the right protection, uh, the Miami dolphins have more than adequate, uh, quarterback into, uh, and, uh, I'll be a two, a two, a man Tua man all game long and that it's just that would be amazing Stu Gotts that Tua will reach your salary with that

contract that's that's pretty ironic. You would take Russell Wilson. I mean. To a million. I mean. That was a bad joke. Yeah. Really bad. Mulder, we love you. I look forward to being on the dinghy during the parade. That's going to be the bandwagon, okay? Your dinghy whose engine doesn't work, okay?

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There is, actually. Hey! What? Were you not going to tell anyone? What? Wait a minute. You guys. It's a Tuesday.

Guys. It's a Tuesday. It's a Tuesday. Stugats. Here's your guy, Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Shit, I hope I don't. OK, here it is. Adultery!

We are back! I've been waiting for this one! This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats! I watched a documentary this weekend, documentary series I should say, because nothing is ever just one documentary anymore. It's always three episodes. And the ending legitimately pissed me off. And Tony saw it too, and I know he's annoyed.

The premise is that, you guys remember Ashley Madison. It was a website where people would go to find people to have affairs with I've seen of it so Well done Married people would go and find other married people to have affairs with you pay for the service Have an affair or not you were essentially paying for the people anonymity you're paying to That out like God That's one of the toughest words in the English language. I stopped right before you guys saw me.

So I was like, all right, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna go for it. You should win a Conn's Mice, but that. And 10 years ago, servers got hacked and hackers or hacker, singular, posted a list of all of its users online and there was a huge fallout from it. Marriage is destroyed, lives destroyed, et cetera.

And this documentary came out, and the entire time, it's kinda teasing like, was this an inside job? I only saw the first two episodes, so I don't know. Tell me, who did it? Spoiler alert, but not really, because it's something that happened in real life. The documentary doesn't know, no one ever found out. The end of the documentary, they're like,

well, we just don't know who did it and I'm still I'm still annoyed yeah the scam really happened from like the creator I forgot the guy's name the guy who's like Noel I think Noel whatever yeah he was he was the biggest scam artist on the planet where he's like guys my marriage is incredible I love my wife everything is great but people who want to cheat should have a platform to cheat. I don't do that. I don't do that. But if I would, I would use Ashley Madison comes out that he was doing God only knows what with 1000 people and we're like put his wife on national TV and be like, babe, tell her like, tell like it's super happy. Like we're good, but love each

other. But Ashley Madison rocks. You gotta get on this Yeah, and apparently they were there were fake users on the site because the entire first episode. I'm watching this I'm like there's no way there were enough married women using this site Behind their partners backs to meet the demand of all the married men using it It just they do it for free though. That was the catch men had to pay women could just sign up for free You know a lot about this. I watched the first two episodes of this. And you didn't miss anything in the third because all you found out was that they don't know

who did the hack. But I was thinking like, it just seems like this is something that a lot of men would use and not a lot of women would use. They would be too afraid of taking that risk and going behind their partner's backs. Sure enough, like midway through this documentary, you find out a lot of the female users were fake. They were just employees of bots.

It was a chat bot, or it was employees faking messages. And this company was trying to go public. And how is this founder not in jail for fraud? I guess technically, he left the company, or resigned, or whatever, before they actually went public. But he was just beefing up this service with fake people the entire time to make it seem like, oh look, we have 70 million users on Ashley Madison. And you could see, because like from 2011 to 2012, they have like this exponential jump of users, and it's like,

we're in India now, we're in China now, and it's like he goes across the world, but then it's like you find out, I don't know what percentage of it was chat bots, was people on the inside working for it. And what made the hack so crazy is that it was super personal towards the CEO, this guy, Noel, where they were releasing his private emails. They were doing everything to attack this guy. So they were trying to figure out, which was crazy.

They thought it could be like someone who had been cheated on or somebody just like a mad person that got cheated on because of the site. Someone who has an axe to grind. They also thought maybe it's like, there's evidence to show maybe it was an employee who had access that then sold the information to a hacker or did the hack themselves.

But I'm sitting there after three hours invested in this documentary. I still don't know who did it and I would like to know. They bring these like Swedish guys who are like, who are like hackers but like reverse, like white hat hackers, like reverse hackers. So they're trying to figure it out. In the end they're like, yeah, I don't know.

We're out of here. They probably made so much money not figuring it out. Dad, you've been quiet during this segment. What's up? The thought occurs that if I'm gonna cheat on my wife, the last thing on earth I'm gonna do- Go on the internet. Is leave an electronic trail of my misbehavior

by going on a website. How would you do it? Well, you do it by going to a bar. Hey, can I buy you a drink? You're not sending a Venmo. You do it old school. Greg Cody, if I did it. Listen to Greg's back in my day on adultery and cheating back in the day and it'll tell you exactly what he would have done if you would have done it. There's certain things you don't use a website for. Cheating!

If I plan to rob a bank, I'm not going to go to a website to look for instructions. There's certain things you don't tell anyone before you do it. No, exactly. What else? That is the last thing on earth I would do is go to Ashley Madison to cheat on my wife. It's absurd. It's laughably inane. You go to Ashley Madison to cheat on my wife. It's absurd. It's laughably inane. You go to landlubbers. You go to a bar, you know, you smoke a cigarette at the

bar, you know, blow some smoke. What would you do? Buy a drink. How would you, how would you court a suitor at this phase? Like, let's say you have, I don't know, not that you're having an affair. Let's say you got a hall pass or something your 50th wedding anniversary Whatever could happen right? Yeah, so let's say this happened But it good how does Greg court a suitor you go to let's say you're gonna go to a bar Do how do you dress what do you do? What is your body language giving off? Oh, I would be terrible I mentioned earlier. I've been a nerd my whole life. I've never been, I've always been awkward at conversation. That's the best thing about being married. You don't have to be clever in conversation anymore. You don't

have to impress anybody. So, although my wife would probably, you know, not agree with that, but I couldn't do that. I couldn't, I wouldn't know what to do. Like I'd end up using old country music lines like what? If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me? You know? Country song is that from it's it's it's a lyric See that's why I've never cheated on my wife because I use lines like that and she's a lawyer so Greg I also think what you're saying is if you went on Ashley Madison and you were exposed shame on you you're an idiot right yes you deserve what you got

they did claim like they were like trust us guys like this is never gonna come out like we have so much that's always the opening line to a scam trust us guys they were bragging about how their website had this shield that said max protection or something and it's just like and he's just like that didn't mean I was like, I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this.

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I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna do this. this was it, like the- And they were interviewing some people that had been caught in it. So you're getting to like learn about the backstory of it and you're hearing real life instances of it. Except that one woman who was like, I like to cheat on my partner and I just like having a lot of sex. And I was like, why are you in this?

And the guy was like, yeah, I love this too. Different dog. This guy. If you're just in an open relationship, that's a different thing. She's like, I clean up on this site. There was actually way back when we first started 790 to ticket, there was controversy around whether or not, Roy, you'll remember this, we should take Ashley Madison advertising

because they were all over Howard Stern's show. And so I was debating whether or not, now we were a startup, we needed money, should we take the money, should we not take the money? A lot of people were upset at stations and shows who took the money. I know, I only heard Ashley Madison ads one time in my life and it was on Howard Stern. Yeah.

Like he took it. They were big time, yeah. I mean his show kind of lent to Ashley Madison. It fit on that show. I didn't take it, I took the dumb healer. What do you mean by that, Stu? What do you mean by that? I mean, Howard just talks about sex a lot.

He used to talk to porn stars. A lot the audience is there's horny guys the ultimate Market just anything you could do for horny guys you're gonna make money Yeah, well the fight those guys are the funny thing about us two guys almost taking money from us Ashley Madison for the ticket the ticket Ashley later down the line took money from a Russian escort service to advertise allegedly The ticket Ashley later down the line took money from a Russian escort service to advertise Allegedly Weekly football Interesting where the line is on morality if you're a radio show because it the in theory People on Ashley Madison are just consenting adults agreeing to have an affair

The person being cheated on is like that's it's technically you're not committing a crime Which is what the guy's point was right? Hey people want to cheat I'm giving them a safe outlet to do it at the same time I could understand being a business and being like, we're not gonna advertise for this on our station. But then advertising an escort service feels like. I forgot about the Russians, I gotta be honest. The Ruskies, yeah.

You don't wanna take money to advertise for a website that encourages infidelity. But then you take money from law firms that say we will take everything from your wife in the divorce as a result of the infidelity. Right, Billy. It's an optics thing, just optics. No one ever complained about a law firm being on the air.

They do other things too. Yeah, like traffic tickets. That's a good point, Billy. It is fair, Billy. What are you saying? I'm not just saying, if you're already gonna take the money, you might as well double dip, you know what I mean? So is there-

That's what I'm saying, like we draw the line at a weird place. It sounds like there's a hole in the market for a website now. Apparently it's still out there. We're still running. But the founder left.

The third episode. Yeah. You could sign up right now, Chris or Greg. Look it up, Chris. I love how he was just like, I picked two popular women names. Like, there wasn't, it wasn't very deep why it's Ashley Madison.

He's like, those were the two most popular women names. Ashley and Madison. At the time. Yep. Madison. He's like, those were the two most popular women names. Ashley and Madison. At the time. Yep. Madison. Yeah. It works. If they renamed it now, it would be Ashley,

but it would be like A-S-H-E-I-G-H-H. I hate that spelling. M-A-D-Y-S-O-N. I'm terrified. Did you just start typing that thing out? I mean, I ain't going to that site. I've seen of it. Somebody Google it right now. It's for work though. We talked about it on air. Why is the link purple on Google? That's weird. I've never

clicked on that one before. Just for work, research. Russian escorts. Yeah. Chris, give me something here. Oh, you want me to? I'll type it in just for you. The Ruskies. Oh, nice. Nice web design. A lot of money. Still love it. Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. The Daily Show podcast has everything you need to stay on top of today's news and pop culture. You get hilarious satirical takes on entertainment, politics, sports, and more from John and the

team of correspondents and contributors. The podcast also has content you can't get anywhere else, like extended interviews and a roundup of the weekly headlines. Listen to The Daily Show, Ears Edition, wherever you get your podcasts. Don LeBbatard. The elephant went into a 7-Eleven and bought a pack of cigarettes. But my question to Ron is this. Stugats.

That joke didn't really land the way you wanted it to. We all just stared at you. It didn't land at all. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. Ron McGill joins us every single week. He's been doing so for years. He is writing a book with Greg Cody. He can't hear us. He can't hear us. I hear you perfectly. No, no stop. I hear you perfectly. Jesus Christmas. My God, guys. Finally get the thing to work and then you stop?

Yeah. Stop until the producer says stop. Well, someone said stop in my ear. I don't know who it was. Oh my God. I mean, you're lying. No one said stop in your ear. Perhaps it was Lewis.

I mean, I'm just, lifetime of doing LSD. I don't know. Don't touch anything. Let's keep on going. Yes. Greg and I wrote a great book. Yes. It's gonna be a great book.

And we got signed editions coming up for Father's Day. A special edition signed by both of us for Father's Day. Pride of a lion, baby. There you go. God bless, this is working now. It's very exciting. We'll get to yours and Greg's book in just a second here. But Ron, first, congratulations on winning

best overall image. If we have that image, let's put it up in the annual Coral Gables Garden Club, as I see it, photo contest. What a ridiculous contest, but congratulations to you, Ron McGill, for having the best photo of the year, the best image of the year.

Let me tell you something, brother. The $1,000 prize wasn't so ridiculous. Oh wow. Look at you. There you go. Not a boy. I like it, yes. What can you tell us about the photo, Ron?

Give us the details. I was getting a freaking blood transfusion as I was taking that photo. That's in the middle of the Ponta Nau in Brazil. And this caiman grabbed this fish. And this happens in a split second, man. It's just, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap, bap. And they cut out of the water,

and they try to reposition it in the air. And you know, I mean, this is like, so I'm shooting this at 20 frames a second. I'm going, and then meantime, I got about 30 deer flies biting the hell out of me. I mean, blood is trickling down my face. I'm kidding, but I want to get the shots on. And then I don't see it because it's happening so fast. And then I looked in my LCD and I saw that one moment where the jaw is open and the fish

is suspended in midair not touching either jaw. The deer flies are flying around. The reflections in the water. Man, all the stars align. And I said, man, this is a winner. Wow. What are the odds that fish survived the encounter? I can tell you that split second after that photograph was taken, it was in the caiman's belly, so it did not. So you photographed a murder. No, I photographed the circle of life, Billy. That's what I photographed, the circle of life.

I don't think you'll believe it, but I'm a fool, I'm a fool, I'm a fool, I'm a fool. No. Uh, Ron, what can you tell us? I got my staff members back here. I can't believe you're feeling so lonely tonight. Uh, Ron, what can you do? I got my staff members back here. I hear them in the back in the office saying they're dying. They can't believe I'm doing this on a podcast. By the way, that's not even the Circle of Ice song.

That's Can You Feel the Love Tonight. That's a different song. It's part of the Circle of Ice, okay? Ah, it's the Kenya. The body, the love. Hey, Kenya, ma, oh, Kenya. That's the Kenya! There we go. I miss the audio issues. Ryan, what can you tell us about the flamingos that are now repopulating here in Florida? Yes, baby!

Flamingos are coming and they're staying. And we're hoping they stay through the winter. We hope they start to nest again. Come on the flamingos. What, what, what, what? What did you say? Say it again. Keep moving, Ron.

Just cheering on the flamingos. Disregard that. Cheering on the flamingos. I'm happy for the flamingos. I was cheering them on. Yeah, this is a great thing. This is really a great thing. You know, there's an effort right now in Tallahassee.

We're trying to get the flamingo to be designated the official state bird, because right now the state bird is the mockingbird. How appropriate, a mockingbird for the state of Florida. The mockingbird? It's mocked all over the freaking country right now. We deserve it. So let's go for the Flamingo, little elegance.

Mm-ing. That's a fair point, we do deserve that. I don't know if we deserve the Flamingo. Ron. Jessica, you're just rooting on the Flamingo and now you're hammering it back, what's going on? I said it's too good for us, Ron. Nothing's too good for us, Jessica.

Nothing is too good for us. Yeah. Ron. Yeah. I found a snake in my yard eating a lizard and I Googled it and I think it's a white-bellied rat snake. Is that a possibility? There's no such thing as a white-bellied rat snake. Well, that's not what Google says.

Well, you know what? If you listen to everything Google says, you're going to have a rough time in life. Well, I mean, this snake is only alive because Google told me it was safe. I was about to go after it and give it a machetazo across the head and then put it into the snake. I'm glad that Google told you it was safe. It's most likely a black racer, which is, you know, dark slate gray, and it does have a white belly. So you immediately assume there must be a white bellied rat snake because it has a white belly and it's, you know.

Oh my God. That's actually a racer. That's a black racer. Just like I predicted, they are primarily lizard eaters. They're found all over Florida. They will scare you. I mean, if you corner one, it will strike at you. And it also, it will rattle its tail.

It doesn't have rattles at the end, but it will rattle its tail in dead leaves. So it makes the rattling sound. So it's really a harmless snake, feeds on lizards, but, and if you grab it, not only will it try to bite you, but it will musk you. It emits, it gets rid of this musk that is so smelly, you have to wait for your skin to die off

before that smell goes away. Well, this one was like sitting up almost. It looked like a cobra kind of. It was like, it had its head up. And then I saw this run and I was wondering if I was about to witness the circle of life. I saw a number of birds on a bush right above it and I was wondering if I was about to witness the circle of life. I saw a number of birds on a bush right above it and I was wondering if these birds

were about to try to attack it. Absolutely not, they were panicking. And that's the way I find snakes when I'm out in the wild is I listen for birds alarming because they know the snakes eat bird chicks and they eat bird eggs. We're in the middle of the breeding season right now so there's a lot of nests with eggs and chicks in them

and snakes are a huge threat to them. So when they see blue jays especially, you know I find when I'm looking for coach whips and things here at the zoo I listen for the blue jays. They're alarming, they're alarming at the snake. That's how I can find the snake. That's all they're doing. So they're just alarming to ensure that their chicks and their eggs aren't getting predated on. Ron, one of my friends moved to Okinawa recently and she's been telling me about the Habu snakes there and apparently the the anecdote if you get bitten by one. Antidote? Antidote. Yeah, not anecdote. She was telling me an anecdote about an antidote.

Anyways, people can have a really severe reaction from it and it could be worse than the actual bite itself. So why is there an antidote that is actually not going to people? That's the way it is with any anti-venine. Anti-venines are made by injecting horses with the venom because horses are so large they then build up antibodies and they use horse's blood to make that anti-venine. So if you have an allergic reaction to the horse's blood, yes you can go into anaphylactic shock and that can cause a real problem. So if you have an allergic reaction to the horse's blood, yes, you can go into anaphylactic shock and that can cause a real problem. So people sometimes are allergic to the antivenin itself,

which can be sometimes more dangerous than the venom. This is why you guys are all too young, but way back, one of my first jobs was the place called the Miami Serpentarium. I worked for a guy named Bill Hoss, and Bill Hoss would donate his blood because he injected himself with venoms to build up this antibodies in his blood

So they could use human blood for people who are allergic to the horse serum and that was a big thing back then Ron going back to the lizard situation on a question that I've asked you previously the curly tails that are all over Dayland that now We see kind of all over there the place Louis is saying that they're now in Doral I see him in Day Dayland, Billy sees them in Westchester, like they're everywhere. Are we gonna have a predator that's gonna come in and regulate this or not? You know, I hope so. I mean, I've already seen birds of prey eating them. I've seen snakes eating them. We just don't have enough predation on them because they reproduce at such a rapid rate and they're spreading so much. By the way, Tony, I met your sister. I didn't know you were you were related to like major politicians here in the state of Florida.

Yeah, absolutely. That's big, man. She's a very nice lady. Thank you. Thank you We missed you this Saturday, by the way Ron. We're still playing so anytime you want to come by we're still gonna hang out Brother, I'm 65 years old. I'm done Vince is out there still 62. He's still out there 62. Okay. I played until I was 63 Okay, I played until I was 63 no major Take nothing like that until I was 63. Okay. I played until I was 63, no major injuries. Take that as a fact. Vince is a better athlete than I ever was. He's in better shape than I ever was. I am now getting that 65 and that's, I'm done brother.

I don't wanna be one of, you know, I remember when I was your age, Tony, and I looked at guys like me and I used to say, I don't wanna be that guy. I don't wanna be that guy. Okay. You're still in your prime. You're still shooting them out the crate.

I'm now an old man out there that you guys can just make fun of, and I'm not going to be that anymore. Ron, a dumbass in New Zealand was fined over a video that showed him jumping off a boat trying to body slam an orca. Now how dangerous was that? Like, an orca is called a killer whale. Is that a misleading nickname or could that guy have been actually killed by this orca? You say body slam, like more of like an elbow drop from the top rope?

No, like from the top rope. Like, he was going like a, you know, how you do a full body frog splash? Like a belly flop? Like a belly flop. Like a belly flop. But right on an orca that's not a body slam that's a body slam would be picking up the orca out of the water like a tombstone whatever a body slam a stone called stinger that would be crazy

the orca could have certainly hurt him even killed him that's not to say that orcas effectively will go after people I think I've told the story in this show on a previous occasion when I was actually swimming in the Galapagos Islands and photographing Green sea turtles when an orca swam over me looked at me and just kept on swimming So it's not like they're gonna look at you and go. Oh my god. I want to kill they feed on seals sea lions They do kill great white sharks as we know, but they don't necessarily look at humans However, if some dumbass human jumps on me as a belly flop

Yeah, just out of anger might turn turn around and just screw him up. And that could have been what I call natural selection. Ron, we agreed to disagree a week or two ago about the ability for a human to live inside of a whale. Stugatz says that he thinks that a fly may have flown into him the other day through his mouth. If that's the case, how long could a fly live inside of him if a fly were to go inside of him? Just long

enough to lay eggs which will then hatch out into little maggots which will then be inside of his belly and they'll feed on different things. What do I do? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. Drink a whole bottle of Tabasco sauce at one time and hope it kills them down there. Ron, what is the... That's my only option. That can't be good advice. Wow. I have one pepper for you.

Ron, what's the best orifice for an insect to crawl into and then have their offspring live? If they were going to enter you, where would you most want it? No, not where would you most want it. Where would it be able to like most succeed? You know, it's common, it's common. You know, I don't know how these conversations degrade on this way, but insects most commonly go into people's ears.

While people are sleeping, I mean, you can go on YouTube and you'll see videos of them taking these huge tweezers and pulling out massive roaches, like from, it seems like from inside a person's brain, they pull it out, this huge roach. Jesus. It's horrible. Look it up Stu Gotts. I know you're gonna look it up. You'll find it. Tabasco sauce. I think the whole bottle. It'll kill the worms. Oh god. Alright Ron I want you to watch a video with us. You always tell us to be calm in these situations. It's a video of an alligator staring down a family from behind a fence.

Let's take a look. Oh my god. Oh, OK. Back away from him. OK. Oh, no, he's breathing. He's calling. He's bellowing.

You see how the water jumps off his back? Back away. Back away. He's courting them. Back up. Courting? He's courting the humans? He's courting.

Yeah, he's doing that. This is the instinct where he's belling right now. He's going, brrrr. And then he vibrates his back and the water bounces off his back into the females. That's like sexy. That's what they do. That's part of their courtship. So he's literally like, hey, what's up?

That's exactly what he's doing. That's exactly what he's doing. Just saying hello, huh? Come on the alligators. That's it. Well, it's kind of like, how you doing? Just hello. Go, gators. I like how you doing that just a little

Gators I like it Tony. I like I don't else for you Rob before we get you out of here I want to talk about the book in a second here one more video here of a of a bear a black bear in California Stealing only something that I would steal if I could steal it He was so close. That never happened before. New at four, neighbors in Monrovia reacting after a familiar bear makes an appearance and breaks into a home. That grizzly calmly making its way in and out of that house.

Are those powdered donuts? Eyewitness News reporter Leigh Ann Sutter, live in Monrovia, where she spoke. They were Oreo cookies. That didn't look like an Oreo package. I know my cookie packages. That looked like a powdered donuts baggie. Powdered spoke. They were Oreo cookies. That didn't look like an Oreo package. I know my cookie packages. That looked like a powdered donuts baggie. Powdered?

Oh, you are an expert. I'm sorry. Like a hostess situation. The bears like chocolate, Ron? Like what's going on there? Bears love anything sweet like that. Sugar for almost all animals becomes addictive. Oh, there you go, that's a monkey!

Oh my God! This is a live shot of my, you guys thought I was joking. This is my dad's ear. You guys thought I was joking. This is Greg Cody's ear. Get the cleasers. Wait a minute, not my ear. Watch this, here you go, watch this. This is a live shot of my dad's ear. This is Greg Cody's ear. Wait a minute. What's this? Here you go. Watch this. This is in your ear. Get the squeeze. Pull my baby out.

Come on. Hold on. There you go. Got it. Oh no. Pushing it further down. That's not working. It's going further down into my brain. Get a grip. No. No. No. A little bit more. Come on. No. Geez. You're pushing it into my head. Just grab the leg. No. Oh. there he's got it, oh yeah, oh. Oh my God.

Oh, I feel much better now, thank you. Thank you, now that you got that massive broach out of my brain. This is my dad's ear, by the way, for the record. Oh jeez. It's a long ear. Oh yeah, it is a long ear. Oh, look at that, that's beautiful, huh?

There you go. Oh my God. There you go, guys. Oh, how many was in there? Put it in the cotton balls when you go to sleep, guys, how many was in there? Put it in the cotton balls when you go to sleep. Enough, guys. Enough, take it off. Put it in the cotton balls. Ugh.

This segment has just gone bad. So bears like anything, okay. Bears like anything sweet, sugar. I mean, most animals get addicted to sugar, just like we as humans do. Like honey, yeah. So you and Greg have written what's already a very successful book.

It's going to be more successful as we approach launch date here, but what is going on? You have the book in hand. You guys should do something special for Father's Day. You know what? I think we're about to. My book with Ron, Ron's book with me, our book, The Pride of a Lion, is part of a Father's Day promotion going on right now through June 15th by my publisher, Mango Publishing. Yours.

Along with The Pride of a Lion, there is a wide selection of other books that are also discounted and make for perfect gifts for all the dads in your life. Visit store.mangopublishinggroup.com and you'll see the entire Father's Day catalog with the discounts already applied featuring the Pride of a Lion. Me maximum. Signed by both of us. Signed by both of us. Signed by both of us. All of them. There you go. Yeah, correct. Me maximum dads. Hmm. Ron, why were you laughing there? Because he was doing a live spot for your book? Because of the way he was reading that script. What? It came off like I was reading? No! That was totally extemporaneous.

Hey, look, it's a great book, man. It's a lot of fun. Greg and I had a blast doing it, and I promise you you'll like it. And it is a great Father's Day because it talks about the great father that Quasi becomes. I think it's a great story. Yep. All right, Ron, we love you. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you, sir. All right. Drink the Tabasco next week. Thank you, sir. All right. Drink the Tabasco, brother.

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