The Harland Highway - 772 - GORILLA shot to death at zoo. Triggerman is interviewed. Question of the day.

Episode Date: June 6, 2016

The man enlisted to take the fatal shot at a zoo gorilla is interviewed by Harland. Also the question of the day answers a RUDE question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Interesting show today, a very tragic news story that still seems to be making the rounds, even though it's like two weeks after the fact, a beautiful, beautiful specimen, a gorilla was shot and killed at a zoo after a young boy fell into its enclosure and the gorilla began to manhandle the young child. zoo officials decided to take the life of the gorilla and a lot of people are upset and we've got the actual man who pulled the trigger from a place called ear emergency animal response he's going to be here to tell us the true story of what it was like to pull the trigger.

Also, the Harland Highway Question of the Day, a very interesting one that involves your middle finger. So here we go. this is the Harland Highway What are I? What is this? Some kind of a joke or something? Welcome to the Harland Highway.

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing. Not because they are easy, but because. They are hard. That is fantastic. What's wrong with everybody in this crazy place? The Harland Highway. What is it? Opening.

To what? To another dimension. This is Harland Williams. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man. That is fantastic. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Kind of a sad way to start off the podcast here.

It's kind of this story that's been lingering. and it's a sad one. It's a tragic one. I think we've all heard by now about the story of the gorilla. The lowland gorilla, I guess it was like a 400, 500 pound lowland gorilla that was at the zoo. And a little boy climbed over the three-foot wall.

Hello, three-foot wall. gorillas, not really a good height for a security wall. I mean, there are higher walls at, like, Dairy Queen, okay? But anyways, as you know or may not know, this little boy fell 15 feet into the moat. The giant male silverback crawled down into the moat and grabbed the boy and was coddling the boy and was like pulling the boy around aggressively.

It didn't look like the gorilla was being violent to the point that it was trying to hurt the boy. It just, it almost felt oblivious to the boy's species. I think the gorilla thought it was just, you know, like a baby gorilla or the big gorilla seemed a bit mystified by this little boy. but at the same time it looked like he was being more protective than he was aggressive but guerrillas aren't you know the male guerrillas

probably aren't as nurturing as one would want a 400 pound muscle machine to be and he was just kind of in a haphazardly way dragging the boy around and kind of doing what guerrillas do and the fear was that the gorilla could at any moment get aggressive or, you know, with an incredible strength, you know,

snap the boy in half and kill him. And so, unfortunately, the call was made to terminate the gorilla. And an expert marksman was brought in to take the gorilla out with a single shot. And sadly, this gorilla, which is an individual. endangered species had to be put down in order to ensure the safety of the little boy. And so it was just kind of a lose-lose situation. You didn't want the little boy to get hurt or even killed. And we certainly didn't want this gorilla to be killed.

We all love animals. I adore animals. I've actually been on safari in the wild jungles of Rwanda and been with these wild. gorillas in nature. I probably told this story before, but I was actually charged by a mountain gorilla, a silverback that came close to 500 pounds.

It charged at me and turned away probably within about two feet of my body, of my person. Yes, my heart skipped a beat. So I can speak firsthand about how terrifying it is and how awe-inspiring it is to come up against one of nature's most formidable and majestic mammals. I mean, these things are just works of art, and the muscle and the power they possess is almost immeasurable. I mean, and so to see a little three- or four-year-old boy standing with this, for all intents and purposes, this monster, not that its behavior was monstrous,

but just, it looks monstrous. And so, you know, sadly the call had to be made and probably not an easy call. And we thought it would be interesting to really find out what that experience was like. The man, the trigger man on this moment. uh is a is an expert in this area he comes from an organization called ear e a r emergency animal response uh this gentleman's name is blake flintlock and he was the man that god

had to pull the trigger and and take down this this majestic wonderful beast and so we thought it would be uh interesting to hear how this all went down from his perspective and get his feelings and thoughts on a job that I'm sure none of us would ever want to do. So Roger is, is Mr. Flintlock on the line? He is. Okay, let's go to him right now and let's talk about this tragic event. Uh, hello? It's a little noisy there, Roger. Hello, Mr. Flintlock. Can you hear me, sir? Yes, sir, so I'm having trouble hearing. It sounds like you're, you're, there's a lot of noise in the background. Oh, hello, sir. This is Blake Lynn Locke from here, and I am at a wild-life sanctuary right now. I apologize for the noise.

You can hear the little rascals in the background chirping up the storm. Oh, so you're at some kind of facility? I'm at a bird sanctuary right now, sir, and I am on the job. Blake Lindlock for your emergency animal response. Wow, what a job you do, sir. And, you know, first of all, I guess in a way, thank you for doing what you do, and thank you for protecting that little boy.

But at the same time, it must be traumatic for you to have to shoot such a beautiful, magnificent animal. Yes, Mr. Williams, it is not easy. I mean, you know, I'm a trained marksman. I have won many awards for my marksmanship. I am a classified 5F7 sniper, military class sniper. I compete. I compete in shooting competitions all over the globe.

I have many awards, and I did do some military action back in the original Iraq War. and I have made a comfortable living doing what I do. Regrettably, it's not an envious position, but nonetheless, it's work that needs to be done, there's somebody needs to do it. Absolutely. I mean, we understand the gravity of the situation, the sensitivity of the situation, and can you just take us through the experience of what it was like to, you know, have to shoot this beautiful specimen?

Well, sir, you know, I've never had to shoot a gorilla before, I'll tell you that much. I have had to take out many animals, and a gorilla was something I never saw coming. I mean, these animals, for all intents and purposes to me, are just like hairy human beings. I mean, the way they look, their poise, their stature, their anatomy, And more than anything else, sir, more than anything else, is that look in their eye. Now, I don't know, sir. Have you ever looked in a monkey's eye? Well, yes.

I've been at the zoo. Well, then you know what I'm talking about, because there's something about the way a great ape or a monkey or a primate looks at you, the way their eyes move. You can see into that animal's soul. You can feel that there is a living thinking creature behind those eyes, more than any other animal species that I've ever come up against. I mean, there is an intensity in a lion's eye, in a tiger's eye, in a wolf's eye. But the great apes, the primates, it's like there's a thought process behind their eyes, and they're very, very human, sir. I think we could all agree to that. It's fascinating.

You get mesmerized just staring at them, and you feel like they're looking back at you and formulating thoughts. Oh, you better believe it. And so, you know, it made it a little more difficult for me to take out this particular animal. I mean, it was tough. Well, how did you cope with it? Sir, what's the thinking behind? Hey, everybody, who wants to have better sex? No? Yes? Yes. The answer is yes. You always want to have better sex. That's what you want it to be better, not worse. Trust me. And Adam and Eve is offering

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so you get your discount and 100% free shipping code Harland. Have fun. Don't throw your back out. You know, getting psychologically, you know, ready to shoot this animal that is used to said seems almost human. Well, there's a little trick I used, and I don't know if you saw the actual footage on YouTube or on the news. No, I did not. I couldn't bear to watch the actual shot. I know that you had to shoot the beast, but I could not bear to watch the moment of impact.

I think it would be psychologically scarring to me. I understand. answer. Nobody wants to see an innocent animal go by, go down, I should say. Well, here's what I sent you asked. Here's what I'd do to cope. Do you remember one of our earliest presidents, the great, great Abraham Lincoln? Well, of course, yes, absolutely. Well, Abraham Lincoln, unfortunately, he met with a tragic end, just the way this gorilla did. I'm not sure. What do you mean, sir? Well, Abraham Lincoln, unfortunately, took a bullet to the head, and he was assassinated and died.

I believe, well, he was at the theater. Well, that's true. I'm not sure what that has to do with this. Well, so you ask me how I cope with taking out a gorilla that, again, looks almost human. I mean, there's so many human qualities that... Yeah, I think we got that we understand the human connection. And so I figure, you know, how do I, Blake Flintlaw get through this killing? How do I take down a gorilla that in so many ways parallels a human being? And I thought, I think the best way to do this is to actually humanize the gorilla even more.

Okay, I think I'm following that, sir, and how do you humanize it more? Well, much in the way that Abraham Lincoln was taken down, I was able to arrange with a costume facility, and they were able to bring me a top hat, a stove top hat. I'm sorry, sir? Did you ever see the hat that Abraham Lincoln wore? It was a very tall, it was like a top hat. You know, it sat on top of his head and, you know, it was almost a good foot high, the black top hat. Yes, yes.

It was kind of like a trademark hat he wore. That's right. So what I did is I had one of the handlers take this top hat and put it to go into the guerrilla enclosure and very delicately so it's not to spook the little boy or the gorilla. I had the handler place the top hat on the head of the low-lane gorilla. Wait a minute, what? And once that hat was sitting on top of that gorilla's head, you know, I'd look through the scope of my high-powered rifle, and, you know, if I squimmed my eyes just right, I mean, I'll be damned.

I'll be goddamned if that gorilla didn't look like Abraham Lincoln standing there. Wait a minute. What? You put a hat on the gorilla? It was a top hat identical to what Abraham Lincoln wore. And so I just got it in my head that I'm not Blake Flintlock from ear, emergency animal response, shooting a helpless, harmless gorilla. What I am, I've now put myself into the psychological mindset of John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth, the man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln? That is correct.

So now I am John Wilkes Booth, and I am in my head lining up Abraham Lincoln and lining up the back of his head for a direct shot. Are you saying that in your head to terminate this guerrilla, You role-played the assassination of one of our great presidents, Abraham Lincoln? Exactly right. And I lined that thing up. And I even whispered as my finger was squeezing down on the trigger, I whispered under my breath.

And I think I even did it in sort of a southern-type voice. As John Wilk Booth, as I was squeezing the trigger, I was like, are you enjoying the show there, Mr. President? You know, just like how John Wilkes Booth probably would have said it. Wait, as you're about to shoot the gorilla, he's got a stovetop hat on, a top hat. That's right. And you're speaking to yourself in the voice of John Wilkes Booth? That's right.

I said, are you enjoying the show, Mr. President? Wait a minute. So you've turned this into a recreation of the assassination. of Abraham Lincoln, that's right. And I squeezed that trigger, and that bullet threw through. It was like a flashing light, and boom, he gone. I mean, I just took him down. That gorilla dropped like a sack.

I mushed up, you know, dog shit in a duffel bag. Okay, sir, that sounds a little peculiar to me. Well, sir, you did ask me how I mentally cope with this very intense work that I do, and in order to get through it, in order to be able to script that dead gorilla up off the ground after my job is done, I need to go to a psychological place that lets me know that this is acceptable, that this is okay. So thank you, John Wilkes Booth, wherever you may be. Wait a minute, you can't thank John Wilkes Booth, sir. He assassinated one of our presidents. Well, he sure helped me through a tough spot. I mean, have you ever tried to shoot a 400

pound gorilla standing over a four-year-old boy? I mean, that's not kids play, Mr. Williams. Well, I know it, but you're an expert. You're supposed to be trained in this and to pretend that it's John Wilkes' booth and you're shooting Abraham Lincoln is morbid. Well, we all have jobs to do, Mr. Williams. I don't come in there and tell you how to do you.

What is this thing? It's a podcast, sir. I've never heard of that. What is that? It's like a radio show. But it's not really a radio show. I mean, it's not like anyone's hearing it on a radio. No, it's on the Internet.

So probably not a lot of people listening to the... Sir, if we could stick to your profession... Well, you know, it's not easy, Mr. Williams. And I've had to go to this practice before. I've had to tap into this. this before in order to accomplish my work. Well, what does that mean? Well, I'm sure you've read the story about the down in Dallas, Dallas, Texas.

No, I didn't. What happened in Dallas, Texas? Well, I think you heard we got a koala bear, the zoo down in Dallas, Texas. It got the rabies. It got, you know, got touch of the rabies. And fortunately, they were able to bring me into, to exterminate the koala before the rabies could become full-on and be transferred into the other koalas thus in danger in them.

So you had to kill a koala? I mean, those things are about as cute and lovable as it gets. I don't take any grace in what I did, sir. I do not take any grace in doing that. Well, how is this comparable to what you did with the guerrilla? Well, in the same way, sir, have you ever heard of John F. Kennedy, one of our great presidents? Of course, JFK. Well, as you know, he met a tragic end down in Dallas, Texas, and...

Wait a minute, sir. Where are you going with this? Now, if you just let me finish, sir, I had a friend who owned a convertible, and I asked him if he wouldn't mind driving it down in front of the book depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald perched to the day he shot, John F. Kennedy. Wait a second. Are you telling me I had a friend of mine put the koala in the back seat of his convertible? It had the seatbelt on, so it was perfectly safe. You're telling me you had a friend of yours strap a lovable koala into the backseat of a convertible,

and he drove down the street, and I was able to get up into that. book depository, the very same window that Lee Haver Oswald took the shot at John Kennedy at... Hold on, sir! And I lined that little beady-eye koala up, his fluffy little ears, and his little cute little button nose, and I got him retiniscope. And I got to tell you, sir, can I tell you, it is not easy to take out a koala that's moving at 35 miles an hour down a street.

in a moving vehicle, and I'm up in a book depository, and there's people walking around in the street. There's other traffic. I mean, I have to be precise with this shot. Are you telling me, you shot a koala, pretending it was John F. Kennedy? Oh, and it was a clean shot. But those of you that think there's a conspiracy theory

about John F. Kennedy getting shot from the deposit. There is not. I mean, if anything could have seen, solved that mystery. It was when I put a high-powered eagle claw, uh, expletable bullet right through that little koala's fuzzy head from way up on the sixth floor of that book depository.

Sir, this is, this is an outright creepy. I mean, this is, this is, whoa. I, I,

I mean, the poor people on the sidewalk just out for a walk and suddenly the nice Sunday dresses, They're nice pressed pants Splatted with koala brains And it was just It was awful I mean the zoo handler

A wonderful lady named Mary She got so upset She climbed out the back She was on the back trunk Trying to get out of the car And it was just horrible You know, sir This is

Boy oh boy This is really a bit Eerie and Creepy. Well, you know, Mr. Williams, you know, I did have a friend of mine set up on the grass in Knoll just in case I missed my shot. But, you know, I've done other things, Mr. Williams. Somebody has to terminate these animals. Well, I don't know if I want to hear any more of this. This is creeping me out, sir. I mean, I had to go to the San Diego Zoo once, and we had a giraffe, an 18-foot giraffe, and I had to take that down with a chokehold. I had to choke it out.

Full Camaro, it was almost like people wrote about it in the paper like it was one of the best UFC matches they'd ever seen. Can you imagine me climbing up on a draft's neck and taking it down in a Camara? Sir, that is just sick. Well, you know, sir, you can throw rocks at glass houses, but, you know, somebody has to do this work. Now, I have to get creative and figure out a way to make. make it so that deaths are not just a waste. Well, what does that mean? Have you heard of the California condor?

It's a very endangered species. There's only 72 of them left in the whole world. Okay. Well, they did a rehabilitation program down in Southern California. They're successful, but these large, they're the largest wingspan of any bird in the animal kingdoms, sir, and they only lay. one egg a season, and they cannot overpopulate the geographical territory for the California condor, and so they laid six too many eggs, and those eggs had to be terminated.

Well, that sounds awful. How do you terminate condor eggs? Well, I mean, you know, the average person might just crack them and throw them on the ground, but being the creative, you know, assassin that I am, sir, what I did is I decided to whip up a golden, a California condor omelet. And so I cracked those omelets, those eggs into a fry pan, a non-stead fry pan, sir, and I cooked myself up an omelette that was quite... Are you telling me you made a California condor endangered species omens. Well, you know, I did sprinkle mushrooms and ham and onions in it.

I got to tell you, it had a little bit of a salty flavor, but it was so good. Oh, my God. Did I ever tell you about the time that I threw an axed right through a zebra? Now, this zebra had gone lame. It twisted its leg, and the zoo had to put it down, and I threw a fire axe right through, probably about a 50-yard throw. I didn't even have to get into the enclosure. I just threw it over the ledge.

It went right through it to Whipcate. Sir, I think we're done here. I want to talk about before I go, Mr. Williams. Have you seen that movie The American Sniper? Wonderful. What an Academy Award, Bradley Cooper. And what I did, I had to take out an African lion at one of these lions because this thing had got fangled up in a fence

and no one could get close to it. It was just enraged. I don't want to hear what you did, sir. And so what I did is I reenacted a scene from American Snapple. I went up on a rooftop, and I laid down, and I phoned my wife. I had my wife on the cell phone, and I was like, baby, I got me a big full-grown African lion caught up in some barbed wire. Oh, she's beautiful. This thing must be about 400, 500, 500 pounds, beautiful golden Maine.

golden eyes, sparkling in the sunlight. I'm loading my hollow point shell into my sniper rifle. Sir, we do not want to hear this. And baby, you tell our little son, Wally, that daddy loves them, but somebody's got to be out here doing this work. I loaded in that chamber, I pulled back, I put my hand on the trigger, I squinted my eye, and that bullet threw right right through the air,

went right in the line's left eye socket, and blew his head up, and I'm crying on the phone with my wife. She's like, come on, baby, come home. You've done your time. Come on, and I'm like, I got to blow up the lion's face, baby. Sir, I don't want to hear anymore. And my little boy's on the line. I said, put Wally on the line.

Wally, your daddy just blew the head off a beautiful lion. His face blew up. His teeth blew through the air. It's just a beautiful thing, little boy, your daddy's so big. Sir, enough. Hang up on them. Did I ever tell you about the time I stepped on the head of a mongoose, a beaver, and a shiny... Sir, hang up.

I love to crush little baby snakes. Hang up on him. God! What the hell? Okay, I'm not going to dwell on it. I'm not going to do what I always do, and it throws me off the show. I'm going right into a new topic. Forget it.

Let's go into something. How about this? The middle finger, which is I kind of want to give it to Blake Flintlock, but let's just keep going. Roger, I think this might be a question of the day. Can you play the question of the day theme, please? That'll give me at least five seconds to compose myself. Play the question of the day thing. The Harland Highway, question of the day.

Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Today's question of the day, and I mentioned the middle finger, the question of the today is, where did the middle finger come from? You know, when you flip someone off, you put your middle finger up when you've got road rage or someone pisses you off? It's like the silent version of FU. Well, I'm asking the question of the day, but I also have the answer here for you, according to history. So I asked the question, but I also have the answer. So here's what history tells us about the middle finger. Let's see what they say. Before the Battle of Agent Court in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers.

Without the middle finger, it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow. And therefore, they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English U-Tree, Y-E-W-U-Tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as Plucking the U, or pluck you much to the bewilderment of the French the English won a major upset and they began mocking the French

by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French saying see we can still pluck you since pluck you is rather difficult to say the difficult constant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to F And thus the words are often used in conjunction with the one-finger salute. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the long bow that the symbolic gesture is known as giving the bird.

So how about that? And for those of you that don't know what the English longbow was, this was like it was literally a giant bow and arrow. It was kind of like the invention of the cannon. You had your guns, and then they invented the cannon. The long bow was actually an elongated arrow. I think this thing was like, I don't know how long, but I think it was over six, seven feet long.

It was a big, giant arrow that they used on an oversized bow. And so they called it the long bow because it was bigger and heavier and they had a bigger bow. They could shoot it farther, and it was a very deadly lethal weapon. And I guess, you know, like most bows, they put the pheasant feathers on the arrows. And I guess, as the story said, in order to pull this giant bow back, they needed their middle fingers. So they cut them off and, you know, to mock the first. French, the English began wiggling their middle finger and thus was born the fuck you or the silent up yours or giving someone the bird.

Now that's according to history as how I found it on the internet. Now, maybe there's another story somewhere. Maybe, you know, I almost feel like the middle finger was born in America. And it was like some guy, you know, was out walking his dog in the Bronx back in like the 1950s. You know, some old man was walking his dog and the dog took a crap on the sidewalk. This was before the days when you had to pick up your dog poo. And some Mickey and a wife Peter come walking down the street in his street. shiny polished shoes and he stepped right in the old man dog poo and the Mickey was like hey

what the fuck old man huh why don't you fucking take your dog and have him shit on the curve hey fuck you and he put his middle finger up all animated and you know what fuck you old man fuck you and your dog shit old man you know I feel like that's where it really came from but But, you know, according to history on the Internet in the year 1415, this is where the middle finger thing came from. I just feel like maybe people were too proper back then and not sophisticated enough to come up with this kind of nonsense. I definitely feel like it was the middle finger and F.U. was born in America. but, you know, who am I to argue with all the accuracies of the Internet? So there you go.

If anybody knows of any different story about the middle finger, please call in and let us know at 323739-4330. 3-2-739-4330. And that is, ladies and gentlemen, the Harland Highway question of the day. The Harland Highway, question of the day. Have you ever heard a koala scream when a hollow point bullet blows its brains out? I mean, it's just like, boom.

Oh, no, no, no. What do you? Hang up. I mean, it's just one of the most of you. You just can't get it out of your head. It's like, pow, blah. Yeah. Hang up on him.

I mean, just blood spraying everywhere like a chocolate fountain at the Golden Corral. You know, it's blood and his brains bouncing off the back of the car, just like John F. Kennedy. Hang up on him. Hang up! God! Unreal! Roger! You know what?

Now, I thought I made it through. I thought I made it through the show. I got to the question. of the day. I actually calm down. Hang up. God. But no, Roger, you had to let them back on. Well, thanks a lot. Now I'm all amped up, and now I'm going to end the show. I'm going to end the show. Thanks to that. Now I've got a picture of koala's head blowing up, spraying koala blood and guts everywhere. Good God, man. Let's just get to some announcements. Folks, please. join our premium members, they are, look at you guys, if you're having fun with this stuff,

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