Wild Times: Wildlife Education - Eastern Cougar Found, Autralia's Heaviest Insect Discovered, and Bucket List Trips

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

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Here we go We're in the studio How are we doing boys? Oh yeah Really great Yeah, you're doing good Do we still need to do introductions Or are we beyond that?

No, but I did want to complain They annoy me on other podcasts Do they? Yeah Oh interesting But can I complain about something though? Of course Dude, you guys fly a lot, right?

Yep Yes This sounds like the start of a stand-up bit I know I know, a very hacky one. I'm just, have you,

what's with that airline food? But I'm, I'm saying, dude, like, it has turned into the most, it's worse than the beach. I know you guys hate the beach.

It's just work, dude. Like my flight there was delayed by three hours for various reasons. I went to Chicago. Flight back delayed for two hours and get this. Finally, after waiting two,

like two hours to get on the plane, we start taxiing, we get away from the gate. You're ready to go. Ready to fucking go. Everybody is, also like just furious. And I thought

the pilot was joking when he came across and he goes, oh, sorry folks, we have to go back to the gate. It looks like we forgot the napkins and paper cups. You're like, ha ha. Yeah, legit. You're like, I'm fine without them, sir. But no, sure enough,

literally, I feel us start going into reverse back to the gate. And I was just like, what, who? Nobody wants. Nobody cares what's who's getting something in a paper cup do they need it's also like is it so remember when they used to give you the full can that's right yeah yeah like now like they pour like you're sharing it with the guy in 22d a fucking dr pepper like we're good without napkins i'll use my sleeve sir i did i did though now we've lost our spot in line dude yeah and i swear they had to wait to

get their spot back in line to take off because we still sat there for another 30 minutes after they I saw her walk back with the box of fucking napkins. There's a couple airports that it does not matter. Chicago, Yep. Denver. Miami. Miami,

you're going to be delayed. It's like, it's like there's like a monkey over there with a stick and he's like just like hitting buttons. And it's like, oh, that flights off. Wait,

that flights off. I swear to God, it's like there's no real control operator. Let me. Let me run this by you guys. Because it, I love Chicago. Yeah. And like a lot of my best friends are, like, I love people from Chicago.

Except Peter. The weather there is arguably the worst of any place in the continental United States. Maybe world. I think I'd rather live in Siberia. Yeah. Well, I will say, it's bad all 12 months. There's like two and a half weeks of the year where you're like, wow, it's nice. And they will get the forecast on those two weeks wrong. So you're, you think it's going to rain.

So it's like, nope, not raining for. That was what happened. time there. Every day it was like, it's going to rain every day. Oh, no, it's only going to rain two days. Oh, no, yeah, every day. And then like, it didn't rain any day except for one where the house almost fell down because it was such an insane rain. It is lush, though. Chicago and the summer, like it feels like you're in the Amazon when you get outside of a very flat Amazon. I also like being in a city where I'm in the top one percentile of body fat percentage. Absolutely. Dude, people there are getting skinnier, though, man. I'm sure. Absolutely.

You know, it's epic, baby. You still have it. You know, you know, You know, it's widely, widely accepted to be somewhat overweight, but there's a lot of people who are like, even my old town, I'm from Downers Grove. And it was like this dinky little town with some like just homegrown fucking stores and stuff. Now it is like this hip trending place. Like everything's fucking. Remember we talked about the breakfast spot, the sandwich spot? You knew what I was talking about. Oh, out there?

Yeah. Two of my best friends from university grew up in Chicago. We call it college here. Sorry, whatever. I grew up just outside of Chicago, Winnetka, Lake Forest, that area. Yeah. So I used to go visit for summers and blah, blah, blah. And then they'd always make me go to this greasy diner that was halfway between your town and where I just mentioned.

I don't, you knew the name of it. Yeah, a sandwich spot. Or, I mean, there is a place called the sandwich spot. Maybe that's what it was. No, that's a chain. But it was easily a 4,000 calorie breakfast. Oh, I'm sure. Oh, dude.

Yeah. And that was just widely accepted as food that you ate in the morning. On a Tuesday. On a Tuesday. I got, so I was really like pushing into my kid. You know, I wanted to be like a Chicago sports fan. I was beating it into. Wait, no, that doesn't worry.

No, I was trying. You know, I was making sure he understood. He's only three, right? And so I want to make sure he understood that we were like in a different spot. Like, it's my hometown. It's Chicago. Like they have all these great things. The food's really good.

And so the one thing that I think really got him was we got this pizza, right? It took forever to come. No, no, regular thing crust. It was really fucking good at this place called Angelo's in downtown Downers Grove, actually. But we waited for like an hour and we were obviously that kids are running around the fucking place.

We ended up just saying give it to us to go. We'll eat it back. Whatever. So we get home, we open up the pizza and it's supposed to be pepperoni. And we're like, it's fucking cheese. Like I'm furious because I was like telling my son how great it was going to be and all this shit.

But then I was like, wait, what's this? I was like, what is this? Why is there like just one pepperoni cut into four corners in the middle of the pizza? And I took a bite and I was like, oh my God, the pepperoni. There's a sheet, a thin sheet of pepperoni underneath the entire pizza underneath the cheese. And I was like, this is the best pizza I've ever eaten in my life. And so what night was this? This was one where he was drinking.

Yeah, absolutely. I was drinking every night. What night was it? I think it was Saturday night. It's interesting because Friday night, pizza night. the Duluca house, obviously. Yeah, always. I decided to make homemade pizzas this time.

Did you do it under the cheese? For the first time in like 10 years. Really? Yeah, it was like, I'm going under the cheese. And it's, it's kind of the way to go. It's better, because you... Doesn't make all your toppings soggy? No.

No, no. Because, dude, what you can do is you broil the pizza at the end, so you get that shit bubbling up, you get those little black dots on the cheese. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Kyle's Googling pepperoni under cheese. What do you have under the cheese? cheese, sausage, pepperoni?

Pepperoni, jalapeno, and black olives. Can of tuna. God. It's disgusting. No, what did I send you about the pizza topping? The Brazilian pizza? Where they put peas on pizza.

Peas. It's good, dude. I can see it being good. I mean, it's not great, but it's good. It's very popular. Okay, would you do it at home? No, that's ridiculous. All right, so.

But look, that's it. Pee pizza. Fuck that shit. The most hated pizza on the internet. So, wait, why are you so fired up this morning for us? Me? Yeah. Oh, dude, I had a phenomenal weekend.

Okay. All right, I'll paint you a picture real quick. Instead of just tell you why. Not the paint brush, baby. Year and a half ago, you guys probably remember, I took the field in an old boys game of rugby. What's old boys? Means you've played for way too long and you shouldn't still be on the pitch.

Like the old guys. The majority, it's 35 and over is the old boys. Okay. But nobody should be playing rugby after about 35. Sure. Which is why they have their own useless teams, right? Yeah. And as someone...

It's a WMBA. Yeah. I can't say that. You can't say that. And so this Saturday was Santa Barbara Rugby Day or Sevens by the Sea, which is a rugby tournament day. And the boys are like, you're playing, you're playing. I was like, I was really nervous, like, which is uncommon for me. Because I was like, last time I played, I pulled my hamstring so bad.

I was like still not even fully back. Well, you have no one. So you usually don't have fear about this types of things. I was just nervous. I was like, man, I haven't been training. I don't know if you guys remember this from high school football. But that first week when you go back to contact, everything hurts. It's awful.

Like one hit and you're like, oh, my shoulder. And then you like harden up. You know what I mean? And then you're like, oh, contact doesn't hurt anymore. Yeah. I haven't done contact in a year and a half. I was like, I'm going to fucking die. So I rock up, warm up with the boys.

And they're like, you're playing, you're playing. I was like, okay, I'm playing. Everybody on the team's 22 to 25 years old and me. Oh, so this wasn't old boys. No. I went to play for the men's club. Oh, brutal. We've got Belmont Shores coming to play, which is, you know,

half of Belmont are USA Eagles. meaning like the professional team. Yeah, and all these guys are rocking up, all these D1 teams and they're like, Forrest, you're on, you're on, you're on. And I was like, okay, fine, fine, fine. So I'm like getting all anxious, getting all nervous, boot up, warm up with the lads, head out,

fucking smash it. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't like I was, you know, I didn't like look like an all star out there, but I held my own, I didn't miss any tackles, had some great runs, distributed the ball well, felt great for the whole time. Now I'll stand by, yeah, calm down. All right.

Right. So I came off. It's a seventh tournament. It means we had five games no matter what. And then you go to playoffs. That's ludicrous as an old... How long is each game? 14 minutes.

Oh, okay. It's a quick. Sevens is the Olympic style rugby. It doesn't matter. So it's a quick game. So I played a game, came off. It was like 10, 15 in the morning. I should preface this by saying one of my best buddies, Isaac,

who I sent you the picture of him and I on our speedos. Oh, yeah. With your tiny legs. He showed up and we made him, we punished him by making him do a power hour of light strike before the first game. God. So he had like nine light strikes going in the first game. I had nothing because I was like anxious.

And I was like, I need to like. You should have had a couple just to take the edge off. Well, here's what happened. I came off that first game feeling really good. Yeah. I played well. I drove my shoulder into this kid and fucking really messed him up. It felt real good about it.

Came off and was like, I need to celebrate. I'm going to have a light strike. That's good idea. I had from 10.30 until 1.30 before my next game. Ooh. And it takes approximately two and a half minutes to finish a light. That's correct. So I drank about five or six.

of them. Oh my God. And just felt better and better and better. And then I took the field four more times more and more hammered to the point that on the last game, they're like, are you okay to play? And I was like, yeah, yeah, I'm good. They're like, you're going to throw up. I was like, no, put me in, put me in, put me in. So I just had this banger of a day. I play. I feel great. I mean, I'm covered in bruises and shit, but I feel amazing. You feel like you prove something. I feel so good. I've never seen him so happy. I'm ready to get back. I told Jess, I'm like, I'm playing the season. And she smacked me. She's like, don't do that. But I like feel so good. I ran hard. I hit people. I drank all day in the sun.

Oh, God. It sounds like you're a kid again. I felt like a 26 year old. Oh, man. I'm a little jealous. Yeah. It's one of the best Saturdays I've had in years. Yeah, you exercised and got hammered. And hurt people. Yeah. All of my favorite things. Those are three good things in the backyard barbecue and hung out with my buddies. I mean, it's basically a barbecue pool for. That was your birthday gift to me. Did you see? Oh, pull that up. He sent me a picture. Is today your birthday? I don't know. Day before yesterday was his birthday.

He knows. This was his birthday gift. Just zoom in on the lower part. What did he say? So my buddy Isaac posted us in our Speedos. That's leg. I just want to point out that I'm holding my Hall of Fame mug. You have to be very good at Rutko.

You also have a sock in your where your dork's supposed to be. No, I don't. I should have though. And some asshole just responded, my God, you do have pencil legs. Thank you. So I gave that to Peter for his birthday. Oh, is that from a Brosner? It must be.

Oh, dude. I thought that was one of your buddies who said that to you. Oh, that makes you feel legit so much better. That was a present for you. You do have pencil legs. I think they look okay. They're very pale, though. Spray tan those upper thighs, man.

Yeah, you do need to get a spray. You can see that I wear a lot of chubby's four inches. That's right. That's exactly four inches. You can see the exact cutoff line of my chubby shorts right there. Before we get into what's in the news, I'm just going to apologize to anyone who's watching. Uh-oh. Because, so I did a leg workout on Saturday.

Okay. Where I, like, you know, did a YouTube workout where I was following. following this video. Okay. And it was one that my wife had done it. Yeah, Peter loved P90s. Any times.

But it was like this like glutes and quad. Okay. That my wife did on Friday and she was limping on Saturday. I got to try this. My fucking legs are so sore. I don't know what to do with them. Right now.

Yeah. I saw you go. Yeah. And so I can't find a comfortable sitting position. And so I'm squirming a lot. And I feel real bad for people watching. That's okay. Try and keep the foot still, though.

I think that's the real banner. Yeah, everyone's noticed. It's beyond it. Play the jingle. Hey, let's ask you a question, Kyle. What time is it? He's right on it. Finger on the bottom.

Thank you, MK., for the jingles. What do you got? Oh, well, I, this is, I'm from upstate New York. That's true. I grew up in Oswego. And I lived one. So the first time he's mentioned that. Yeah.

I didn't know. About an hour and a half away is a town where I also lived for a year after college. What are you doing? Rochester, New York. Yeah, yeah. When you think of Rochester, New York, what do you think? Do you think, uh, for some reason I think of like alien spaceships. Okay.

I think of, sure. There's plenty of snow there. Uh-huh. Do you think of, uh, just a lion walking around the inner city? Absolutely not. Rochester Africa? Completely impossible. Well, in, uh, July, so we're a little late on this one.

Uh, in just the middle of the city of Rochester, Rochester is a city. Okay. Like a urban. It's very urban. This is upstate New York? Yeah. Okay. Western New York.

Okay. All right. Very densely populated city. There's a fucking mountain line just walking around the streets. Nah, cannot be. Cannot be. Tell me more. It's, there's video.

People are calling 911. People are out, you know, walking their dog. A place order looks like here. Yep. They told people to shelter in place. Wow. There's video of it. There's a fucking hilarious guy.

Let's take a look at this video, Kyle. Let's see what's going on here. Look. The thumbnail is already hilarious. Oh, yes. It's Curtis Jones. What's up, Curtis? I already like him.

Yeah. He's very Rochester. Yeah. Last night, I was just walking to the store, you know, walking my little routes, get my couple little snacks. Yeah, baby. I'm on the side over here, and I just see people running and stuff. I'm like, what's going on?

We've got to get this kind of podcast. What's going on? I was like little little nervous I kind of understand I just I just got walking I see mad

people just I see the people I just see some big shit just walking right over there I swear I promise

they were right over there they just they said rah and they see it so in my head I'm like now I gotta go

man I'm about I ain't about to play with no man I ain't about they probably don't see the right now so I don't know

what's going on about You gotta keep this bat right here. Oh, yes. He's just walking around with the baseball bat. He didn't get a snack. He didn't get his snacks. Dude,

the mountain lion really ruined his snack. Can you find the picture or video of the lion, Kyle? I do think it's hilarious. They saw this guy walking around with the bat, the news crew, and they're like, oh, we got to talk to this guy. I love this story. So this is really interesting. One, because they're not supposed to be mountain lions in New York.

Oh, I didn't. So they're not in that area. Oh, there's a video. Let's take a look at this video. hold on. Oh yeah, that's a big kitty. Ronchester police. Boy, I hate this guy after listening to Curtis.

You look like a real wiener. Hold on, get that back. Run that back. Run that back. Yeah, that's a big cat. That looks like a regular lion. I like how they said possible. It's like, no, that's a mountain lion.

Or it could be three dogs with a trench coat. Wait, so Kyle, real quick, pull up Mountain Lion range map for the United States. I want to point something out here for a hot sec while I make my cocktail. What do you make it? You got a cocktail? I'm making a magic mind cocktail. We got this liquid death in your press packet that you got. Not a sponsor.

No, not a sponsor, but it's sparkling water. And this is like one of my favorite drinks to make at home. Okay. A little bubbly like that. Yeah. A little magic mind extra. I'm curious what your alcohol is going to be. I wasn't going to add alcohol.

Oh, it's just a straight-up magic mind cocktail. So there's the current mountain line range. historic range is the entire U.S., all of Mexico and a bunch of Canada. Right. But now it's, yeah, what do you see? Wow. Right. So here's what's so interesting.

Florida. So as you pointed out, mountain lions used to be extant across the entire continental United States. Even up into Canada. Right. But they were expatriated from a lot of their range. And a big part of that was, Kyle, just type in Eastern Mountain Line. The Eastern Mountain Line, allegedly, subspecies, some debate, whatever, is extinct, right?

at least that's what they say. We thought about doing this for Extincter Alive. We did. Yeah, we did. A bunch of times. And so, look,

my opinion is simply this. The Eastern Mountain Lion, which was a subspecies, likely was driven to extinction. Maybe a couple survived, but then what would have happened was they basically got expatriated all the way to the Rockies.

Then the Western Mountain Lions just, I guess it's not quite the Rockies, is it? But all the way to that line. Yeah. Then the Western Mountain Lions being very cryptic, very elusive cats. they just spread back over.

So I think this map is complete and utter bullshit. Really? I really do. I think there's probably mountain lines in every state in the United States now today. Now, I don't think there's a lot, including that one that was in New York. Could it be somebody's house cat that's escaped, aka like a pet? Yeah. Could it be a leopard or something?

Absolutely. But I think much more likely is that Eastern Mountain Lines, what's that one in the bottom center there? No, one over, Kyle. that might be the old Eastern mountain lion visible cougar habitat i don't know viable oh sorry thank you viable see i need a magic mind um but yeah i think the point is just simply that i think the mountain lions were expatriated from a lot of the u.s and i think they've come back and recolonize most of it yeah and we still have this aged out idea that they're not in all these states but everybody sees them all over the country now so they can basically live

anywhere in there they're weather-wise yeah yeah weather wise because they live in the everglades the everglades the andies down in peru i mean up in alaska canada yeah how is that possible are these the same species or are these like subspecies no so same species there's just that subdivision of species the subspecies of eastern and western like i was saying that's pretty wild though to think that they can go like from being in 90 degree tropical weather to like alaska where it's like zero yeah oh they're super diverse that's wild Arizona to Alaska to yeah they're down in Peru. In fact, there's one place, look this up, Kyle, real quick. It's in South America. There's one place in the whole world that you can really go to see and photograph mountain lions.

And it's somewhere in Peru. And they have this unbelievable like mountain lion safari. See if it comes up. And it's, it's, you know, because I've seen them twice ever. Yeah. That's it. And, you know, I'm outside a lot. Yeah, yeah. They're hard to spot. And yeah, there's this one incredible place. This is, yeah, it's somewhere in Patagonia and you go on safari and you can see these mountain lines and you see them hunting llamas and it's pretty incredible. Yeah, they

I mean, look at that scenery there. Damn. There's a picture of a mountain lion taking down a what is it, an alpaca? It's the other one that I always forget the name of. Guanico. Thank you. By the way, like no chance to defend a get, like what is it going to do with its big neck? No, nothing.

Get a tack? It's just a meat sack sitting there. Does it say the name of where you go to do this like mountain lion safari cow that says just pedagonia national park see if you can find it though real quick like type in like mountain lions safaris patagonia like some of these pictures are like some of the coolest pictures i've ever seen so i'm saying look at the background patagonia looks so so oh man have you've been haven't you know it's it's like definitely my current number one really yeah that's it that's it there torresdale pine you've been to a couple of your number ones though haven't you've crossed a few off the list for sure but yeah patagonia is still

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Yeah, Greenland was won and I got that, and then Sondong Cave was, I mean... You've been talking about Song Dong for since I've known you. He just likes Dong. I do. Honestly, the cave was never in my list

until Patrick got me all fired up about it and then it was... He does that. You're less of a cavegy guy. Yeah, you love a good cave. Because he's got to wear a helmet. No helmets allowed. The Galapagos was one

for me. Papua New Guinea was one for me. The Amazon was one for me, which I've been too many times now. I mean, there's just been a lot. We were sitting, sitting, sitting having a cocktail on my couch, I believe a Nogroni. And we'd found out we had a second season of Extincter Alive.

And I said to Forrest, I was like, let's just, let's do one episode where we just cross off a bucketless place. Yeah. And I was like, what's your number one? And he said Galapagos. I was like, that's way up there for me. Find something. Yeah. And so then he found the tortoise.

And it became our biggest discovery ever. Ever. But I remember being on the boat. And we, you know, Forrest, I think, was feeling guilty that we had decided to do the episode just so that we could go to the Galapagos. Very much so. And I was like, well, dude, because he was being kind of a negative Nancy on the boat ride. And I was like, dude, you might, might find something.

He goes, there's zero chance. That's true. I said that. And I was wrong. You should have started. You should have started the show off with that interaction with Forrest is like, dude, I don't even know why we came. Let's just turn back.

All right. Well, that's, so what do we think? We think that's just a Western mountain lion that made its way across country? Yeah, I think the range is expanding again. What are, what's the big cat ownership laws in the state of New York, Kyle? Probably can't own any. I don't know, man. A lot of those like northern cold places are like, yeah, we don't care if it gets out, it'll die.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. You cannot own. Oh, you're not allowed to have a hyena. Lions, tigers, tigers, tigers, which includes Mount Lions. Did you imagine somebody just had a hyena? It happened like 15. you someone does. That's crazy. I promise you someone has a hyena in New York. Like the kingpin of drug cartels in New York. Here's the thing. This is interesting.

Okay. A lot of people don't realize this. Oklahoma, for instance, I don't know this for sure, but I bet you you're allowed to own a hyena. Okay? So if you really want a hyena, yeah. First of all, you're probably not the most law-savvy person because you really want a hyena, which makes you a little bit unhinged. All you have to do is drive to somewhere like Oklahoma. Yeah. And buy your hyena. And then you just put it in the car and drive home. Yeah. And it's the same thing. Just the other day, was it Connecticut or Pennsylvania? This guy, he's really funny. See if you can find this guy. This guy's kayak fishing and he hooks an alligator. And he's in like Pennsylvania or New York

or somewhere like that. And he's like, it's a fucking gator. And it's just like it's so funny. But it's, I promise you that alligator. Yeah. Somebody went to Florida or somewhere near there, either bought or caught a little alligator this big, scooped it up, put it in the trunk of their car, put it in a shoebox, took it home, kept it as Scruffy for a couple years. All of a sudden it doesn't fit in their two-bedroom apartment. And now they're like, well, let's just let Scruffy go. Just toss them in the room. Yeah.

And this is happening a lot more than we think because, yes, there are these state laws. And but we're hysterical by thinking that, oh, because they're illegal in the state of New York, people don't have them. They absolutely do. Also, because of, I wonder if because of social media, because it's a way to get attention, like if people are doing it more. For sure. You just have to then consider, are you going to get in trouble?

Right. And then they're going to euthanize your squirrel. What was it? Was that a squirrel that got killed? What was that squirrel's name? Wait, you are allowed to have a binturong? What do you need is this? New York.

Is the bintan, the one on the right or the one on the left? Are you kidding me? What about Cota Mundi? Can you have one? It is allowed. Jesus. Wow. I've never even heard of that.

What is that? A Codumundi? It's like a central and South American raccoon. The thing's awesome. Oh, they're awesome. Kyle, see if you can find the video of us playing with the one at Paul Kaffaros. They must be very industrious, right? They probably, they survive, can survive anywhere, eat garbage.

Same way raccoons are you. No, they die in the winter for sure. They're menaces, though. Look at this little guy right here. So this is a buddy of mine in Florida and he's got this one here. And it's just like you're trying to talk. Whoa. Why are you dressed like such a nerd?

Yeah, I think I look really good in that. Well, you do, but you're still dressed like a nerd. shorts are ridiculous. I was in Florida. You know how hot it is? Yeah, but they're just menace. Oh my God. He is just flipping all over.

Just going to tear up, tear up everything that they can get their hands on. Oh, dude. Not to derail, but I will real quick. Guess who I saw in Downers Grove because he is from the area. Corbin.

No, he's not from that. Neil. No. Odd Danny, dude. No way. Did you really? He met up with us. You're the biggest odd Danny fan.

I don't know who this is. Yeah, he was at AnimalCon. We interviewed him. He's got like 5 million on TikTok and 7 million on Instagram, maybe reverse. But dude, he just makes quick one-minute videos that are like these fascinating animal facts. But like just kind of like it's fascinating, yes. But if you know anything about animals, you know it. But dude, like all of his videos get like 500,000 likes.

What did you and Ad Danny do? He came out with me and like all my close circle of growth. friends I grew up with and we got hammered at a bar, obviously. What else will we do? Did he do some drinking with you? Yeah, of course. Did he say ridiculous things? He's a character. Did he wear a two-colored shirt?

Two-collared? Did he wear that? Two-colored. Go to a picture of Audany. He always wears like a black shirt. He was like, he was stylish. Doesn't he wear like a weird shirt? No, maybe not. That's like his most famous picture right there on the left. But yeah, dude. But anyways, like this dude, we met at AnimalCon.

He's from like my hometown. He worked at the car wash that I worked at. Is that true? Swear to God, the guy that hired me hired him was like 15 years later. Was your friend Pat Man there? It was, yeah. So Peter has this.

It's obviously a story. Peter has this friend named Pat Man. Yeah. He's the best. I was roommates with him for a couple years. And so many years ago, many years ago, many years ago,

we went to a Bears game. Bears versus Jets. It was in December. It was an ice fucking cold. Oh, miserable. And so we go. I was in like this like, you know, I was in some club. Yeah.

Yeah. I was on crutches. And Peter was on crutches. And, uh, the club stayed open for like an hour and a half after the game. Yeah. So Peter and Patman came from their nosebleeds and into the club. Yeah. Snuck in.

Yep. And we drank for about 90 minutes. Okay. All hanging out. Yeah. We were drinking my ties, by the way. It was something that was like you drink one of them and you're obliterated and we were already obliterated.

So then Patman and Peter fuck off to some other bar. I go. I go back to my hotel just to like freshen up. I then go to meet them at this bar. Okay. Pat man walks up to me like eyes closed drunk and introduces himself and goes, nice to meet you. After we had hung out for an hour and a half. Yeah.

So he's kind of an idiot. He's not an idiot. He's very smart in like kind of his career and his job. And he takes good care of himself. He always been working out. But when he gets hammered, you know, he's one of those guys who won't remember he met you five seconds ago. Clearly. Okay.

What happened with the dart board? He was, like, wasn't, didn't we, weren't we playing darts? And he, like, threw a dart and it hit the door on the side. Like, he was trying to play darts. I just remember it and almost hit you in the head or something. Basically, we were at a bar that was just a house. Yeah. And they had created a bar in their living room.

It was called, like, something in jeans. Jeans. Yeah. Ed in jeans. Yeah. I hope it's still open. It was great. Oh, my God.

And the proprietors were there and we were like among the only people. Yeah. Ed and Gene were probably 70. Yeah, of course. Total little dive. Yeah, got to know them. They gave us party favors from their daughter's wedding. Oh, that sounds tremendous.

Yeah, it was great. I like that. And that didn't eat the entire day. That right there is is one of the best parts about Chicago. Or it was. I don't know if it's still the same way. But like you can go and find like a literal owned by two 70-year-olds that never has any patrons bar and they just set up

like a dartboard and a jukebox in a pool table. It costs $40 a year to live there so it's not a problem. Not anymore. But dude, didn't you also order a very expensive deep dish pizza to your hotel room and then fell asleep and never got to eat it? That's correct. Just making sure.

Yeah, I did do that. Let's get back to some news. Yeah, animal stuff. Sorry. If I... I hate to say that. I'm going to say he hates it so much. Fuck off. Odd Danny was animal related. I like odd Danny. All right. You know that game we play? He's so angry. That's okay. He'll be fine. Kyle's just cracking up and make sure that you show pets reaction during this part of the edit.

Kyle, what's the name of the game we play where we say like animal names and then or like scientific words and we have to figure out what they mean? Beastly buzzword. All right. I'm going to say a beastly buzzword. Okay. Except here's the thing about this. It's a species. Okay. Then I'm going to slowly drop clues and you guys see if you can figure out this news story. Does that make sense? Yeah. All right. Acrophila, Alta. It's some kind of a vehicle-sized bug.

Ultima. Ultima, yeah. Is that a behavior? Nope, that's an animal. Acromanga, old. Animal. Take a guess at what that could be. I'm just stick with,

it's so like you can't acrophila. I guess it's got to be a bug. Why? Because you read the thing and already know. No, it's either a dinosaur. A car or a insect. All right. Well, I know what it is because I saw it.

Yeah, that's unfortunate. He's such a cheater. Well, it's right there. It is Kyle. That's called out. Anyway, listen, a new giant stick insect, acrophila alta, has been discovered in the high altitude rainforest canopies above 3,000 feet in far north Queensland. Now, what's cool about this is giant stick insects are cool in their own way.

They're just these big walking sticks. But these ones, the females are nine inches. long and it's now since this discovery just a few months ago it is australia's heaviest insect weighing at 1.55 ounces dude so nine inches long like imagine a ruler like that's giant well is it nine inches or is it what i say is nine inches your pito piccana by the way that's something out of a giermo del toro movie yeah look at that thing is much bigger than his hand three times bigger than his hand yeah he's got the biggest that's crazy that's the size of a bag If you're driving, come back and watch at 30 minutes into the show, this insect is an alien.

Look how cool it is when it spreads its wings out, too. I mean, I'm hoping there's very, very few of these. Because if there was like a cloud swarm of these, it could take over the world. As long as his full forearm, do you see that? Yes, it's pretty amazing. It's massive. Dude, imagine if they said, like, oh, the once every hundred year bloom of this nine-inch stick insect is coming. I'd love to go see it, to be honest.

Remember when like the locusts or the cicadas came a couple years ago like this, yeah, that was people. That was all over the news like terrifying. Cicators are back. And that's this big. Yeah. My brother was like, it wasn't that big of a deal. No, it wasn't. Yeah.

Anyway, I just thought this was really cool. Anytime there's a new animal discovery, it's insane. It's awesome. There was, uh, have you guys heard about, uh, I guess like mosquitoes are getting really bad in Las Vegas? No. In Vegas? There's no water. How's that possible?

That's what they're saying. And so there's these, I guess, very, like, drought-tolerant kind of new mosquitoes. There's two species of them. New. They just dropped a new mosquito. It's bad when there's new mosquitoes. I mean, every casino has a giant fountain. That's true.

Yeah. Just a backyard swimming pool is enough to, like, give birth to millions of mosquitoes. Yeah, but only not if, not if you chlorinate it. They don't. They don't. It's not dead wrong. There's no chlorinate. You're dead wrong.

You think mosquitoes can breed in a fully chlorinate. I don't know, man. I think so. My place in Studio City, I would always see their little fucking eggs on top of the water. You see the mosquito larvae in your pool? I didn't see the larva. I would see like the eggs. Okay. And we had, it was, we were decimated by mosquitoes. It is, it is way worse in L.A. than like where I live in Santa Barbara for some reason.

Are you sure your pool was chlorine and not saltwater? It was, but maybe I'm just wrong. Well, you are wrong. It's okay. But I mean, anywhere, anybody that waters their lawn that waters their potted plants and that little ring around the bottom of the pot gets water in. All those things breed mosquitoes. Yeah, yeah.

And what is the mosquito gestation period? I mean, it's like 10 hours or something. Oh, really? Not even a day? No, look it up. These son of a bitches. Five to 14 days. Nevertheless, dude, they're probably laying like 7,000 different egg clusters in that in that time. That's what I was looking for.

Mosquito eggs can hatch within 48 hours. Man. So from when they lay the egg till it's a larva, it's 48 hours. Unbelievable. So that means you just have to have a cup of water like that standing outside for two days and you've got mosquitoes. I'm very anal about that. Like I go around my house and because, dude, like when we first moved there, there was those ridiculous mosquitoes we've complained about that, that are very hard to, like, kill

and they get you multiple times. Yeah, those ankle biters. And so the next year, dude, I just went around my entire house and like was kicking over any empty flower pots just like violently getting rid of any water. So we've gotten a lot of good feedback I've seen in comments that people really like, especially when Forrest talks about like little trips because you go out pretty much every weekend and do something. Always. Something adventurous. Yep.

Yeah. And these are things that are not expensive, right? Something anyone can do. Absolutely. So people like it. So we're going to try a new segment, Kyle. Play a jingle. Oh, yeah.

This is. The detour destination of the week brought to you by Toyota. I like that. What's your detour destination of the week? Okay. This specific week, I went to Texas. Now, here's the thing. This was really easy.

I loved it. It was so simple. Direct flight into Dallas. Picked up a rental car. It did happen to be a Toyota, actually. Good. Picked up a rental car and drove straight to the Trinity River. How long is the drive?

One hour drive on DFW south of Texas. And on the river, beautiful river, you can go almost anywhere. And if you find somewhere that has a nice bend in it so that there's a bit of an eddy from the river, you chuck out a chunk of bait. Here's the big ticket, though. You wait when you get a bite. Unlike any other fishing. Yeah.

And if you do that and you wait and you set the hook, you're going to catch one of the most incredible fish on planet Earth. Kyle, pull up my Instagram real quick. I'm on pins in the, I'm on edge of my seat. What is this? react to this fish that I caught on Wednesday. Look at that. Holy crap, that looks like an alligator. It's a dinosaur.

Look at that. It's also about seven feet long. Bigger than you. Here's what's crazy. So that's a good sized alligator gar. They get much larger than that. Yeah. But the fact that you can literally be in downtown Dallas

and 45 minutes, maybe an hour later, you're in a location like this on the Trinity River, you're soaking some bait on the bottom, and you're catching this unbelievable prehistoric creature that has the head of an alligator an armored body like a tank this paddle like tail that is

of something like a grouper. I mean, it is one of the most incredible fish on planet Earth. Did you measure that thing? We meant to and we forgot. But we know that it was between six and seven feet. It was so high adrenaline

to tell you the truth. How long did it take you to like get it out of the water? It was actually kind of cool. Kyle, maybe you could pull up some video of it, but we hooked it and then it ran into the sticks

and my buddy Brenton that's in the video there, he dove in and freed it from the sticks. Well, I put the pressure on it right here. He's going underwater in this muddy, muddy river. And he dives in and he frees it out of these sticks. And then I reeled it in. So the whole fight took probably 20, 25 minutes. Yeah.

But then, yeah, we landed on the muddy riverbank right there, this unbelievable fish. And it was so, so cool. And the thing that makes this such a spectacular detour destination, you can do this any day. You can fly to Dallas or you can be in the, area and this costs nothing. Oh, yeah. It costs nothing. If you have a good fishing rod and set up, you can literally

grab a chunk of bait, sink that bait, and catch one of the most incredible river monsters on planet Earth. Seriously, what did you use for bait? Carp. Carp head. Yeah. Carp head. You just buy it or you caught it? No, my buddy Brenton had him in his freezer. Got it. But, you know, we chopped up these carp and caught these unbelievable fish. But it's so accessible. Anyone that wants to do this and I don't encourage you to kill them. If you catch one, let them go. These fish can live to be a hundred years old. But, you know, it's such an incredible thing to have right here in our own backyard in the United States that anybody can do. And you catch this once in a lifetime fish. You do not have to travel the middle of Borneo to catch this thing. You know what I mean?

It's literally it's, we went from there. Fifteen minutes later, we were at like a hearties eating a crappy burger. You know what I mean? Like right where we caught that fish. An alligator gar burger. Yeah. That's a good one. See, I like. also cheap flights to Dallas. Direct. I'm here for sure. Yeah. That's a good one, man.

Yeah, I love it. I really recommend it. Anybody that wants to catch one of these monster fish, go and check it out. Trinity River in Dallas, Texas. And that is our detour destination of the week. Brought to you by Toyota. Have you ever been bitten by an alligator gar?

Thankfully, no. Or seen someone who did? We came really close there because we had to get the hook out. I was going to say, yeah. I'd like to see what kind of damage an alligator gar could do if it accidentally got you. It wouldn't be good. That looks bad.

It looks like Jeremy Wade got nailed by one. Oh, wait. I got bitten by a spotted gar, which was pretty bad. Kyle, just type in Google search,

Forrest Galante Garbite ear. You got bit in the knee? Let's see if this comes up. It's just your book. Or just take out Garbite. But I got, yeah, I got bitten in the ear.

And it was pretty bad. No, it's not popping up. There it is. He got it. Oh, my God. Look at that.

What? So is that an overlay? Like, or what's going on with that picture? Is that Photoshop or is that the actual gar? This was long before the days of Photoshop. So this was shooting Extincter Alive season one. Yeah. Florida Black Wolf.

And I bowfished a big gar, big spotted gar. Okay. And I brought it into the boat and I was showing it off, holding it like this to the camera. Yeah. And it woke back up even though I thought I'd killed it. And it turned and bit me in the ear. I like that. Yeah.

I let it go last hurrah in. Did that make it in the show? No, we didn't use it. I don't know why. Because we were collecting food for, you know, when that storm hit and we like flipped the canoe over and cooked up some stuff. And then, I don't know, it didn't make the show. But it was really fun. Oh, you ate the gar?

Yeah. It was gross. How was it? It was bad. It wasn't good. Yeah. It's not an alligator gar. That's a spotted gar, which are really common and it's not bad to kill them like the alligator gar.

Can you, Kyle, Google, what type of gar are in Lake Ontario? Is Lake Ontario's over in the Great Lakes? Yeah. One of the Great Lakes. Spotted gar. Let me see what a spotted gar looks like. Why? Did you have a run in with one of these guys?

Yeah. They're really pretty fish. Yeah, that's not what I found. Me and my buddy went fishing at Lake Ontario when we were growing up. Okay. And man, I really think it was an alligator gar. But it just, it was someone had caught an alligator gar either there or in the river. Okay.

And it was just hanging from a tree. Oh, geez. So they just strung it up? Yeah, they killed it. It's a weird thing to do. Yeah. And we found it. We were about 12.

Yeah. And so we took this fucking huge gar. Yeah. And just walked around the marina saying we caught it. Showing it to people. Nice. Get away from me. Nice.

Yeah, but I was curious if, can they live in lakes, alligator gar? Yeah, yeah. Lakes, ponds, rivers. And they're not, I think, check out their conservation stats. They're definitely not in Lake Ontario. They're further south than that. So maybe someone put one there. It may not have been.

It had fucking gnarly teeth, though. Yeah. There's several species of gar in the U.S. But yeah, they're really, really unbelievably cool fish and very prehistoric, very dinosaur-like. Really fun trip. We did that. It was a strike mission. We literally left at like 4 p.m. on Wednesday, fish Thursday and came home Thursday night.

Oh, wow. Yeah. So, Forest, I was, when I was in Chicago, my family, I was, you know, like, show my kids how it's so different from, like, L.A. and the environment. We kind of live in this, everything's dirt. dusty and you have these beautiful mountains and not a lot of greenery, everything's kind of dead. And so I was really trying to be like, when I get back, I want to like find spots that I can take my kids where like, you know, I can just run into a stream or like a pond where there's some like green shrubbage, shrubbage around.

Shrubbery. It's shrubbery, right? Everyone wants to show their kids shrubbage. Yeah. So I was wondering with like, within. an hour of L.A. Is there any spot where like you could go, let's say it's like a forest with a creek and a lake? And it doesn't, and it's not too hard of a hike. Yeah, there's plenty. There's like 40 of those right near Santa Barbara. I need to, I need to know one. Okay. A good one

that I recommend is Refugio Canyon. Refugio. Kyle. So if you go to Refugio, you've got a really nice beach. So check it out right here. Kyle, pull up some pictures. You've got. You've got a got a really lovely beach, which it's not showing. Oh, because I see the length. So just type in Refugio. Yeah, type in Refugio Beach. So first of all, you've got this beach. That's a nice beach with a little campground. Not a lot of people. You can have a fire. You can dut your dog off leash, all the shit you're not allowed to do in L.A. Yeah. And then the canyon, which leads into the beach, Kyle, type in the canyon, has a creek in it. Yeah. Very heavily wooded. Like you can see, obviously,

there was a fire up there, but there's little waterfalls and things. Oh, I love that. You can swim in. There's a creek. Steelhead run up that, so don't fish it or anything. But it looks like that. Yeah, go to that one right there. It's like that. Oh, my God.

It's beautiful. It's lovely. It's exactly what I'm talking about. Yep. Perfect. And that is 30 minutes north of my house in Santa Barbara. Now I'm going. Yeah.

We're going this weekend. And I can give you plenty others. I will take a map. You should sell a map of just spots. That's a good idea. There's a million hiking guides and things. You just have to not be lazy. Yeah.

You could just ask Jet GPT. Yeah. You would us chat. Kyle, let's play a game. All right. Not this one though, but a jingle, please. That one. What was this game, Kyle?

This is the beastly buzzword quiz. Play along with us. See if you're smarter than For us. See if you're smarter than Peter. Bye, Peter. No one is smarter than me. How does it work? I'm going to read you a word.

Okay. And this is a scientific word that describes some sort of animal or animal behavior. Okay. And you guys are going to guess. And Forrest gets angry because he thinks that these are unnecessary. Well, I should know them all is the main thing. And I never like study a review or look at the document before we get here. And I did.

That's the worst part. Edwin is listening. He's making, because we always complain about Forrest winning everything. Because Edwin has a naked picture. He definitely does. And I am certain that at some point in my life in college, I had to write these words and answer them on a test. And now that was the last. time they ever crossed my brain.

That's the problem. That's what makes me angry. So let's make me angry. Let's play the game, Kyle. So Peter, Peter's scampering about the studio. Who put back a halfie though? Who put a half a light strike back? That's definitely something I would do. Yeah, it is. Do it all the time at home. My wife hates it. All right. The first word here

is Eurohydrosis. Dinosaur. It's, it's, it's not the game we're playing. This is a behavior. This is a behavior where. an animal drinks its own urine to rehydrate itself. Ooh, good guess. Eurohydrosis. This is the act of an animal that has the ability to hydrate its own skin with only taking in the

moisture from the environment. That's a good guess. That's actually a very good guess. That's probably correct. Just to do something that they didn't do, I'm going to say this is an animal that has a hydrophobic type of skin, something with water repellent. I'm going to give a half point to Patrick. Yes.

The definition here is cooling by defecating or urinating on legs. I do that all the time. Everybody gets mad when I pee on my own chest. Well, when I pee on other people's legs again. Yeah, what the hell? Cooling. Can you give us an example? Who's doing that?

Yeah, the examples here are storks and vultures. They shit on their own legs. That's different. Defecating and urinating. He said defecating. Okay. We pay. They would have gotten a half a point on the test.

Well, what's more annoying is I know that. I've seen them do it. I've watched them shit on their own legs and been like, oh, they're doing that to cool themselves down. I just at no point said, oh, yes, it's Eurohardrosis in action. In college, a bunch of my buddies, we went to a water park.

We were camping. Okay. And my one buddy, Owen, didn't have enough money to go to the water park. And so we basically, if we each gave him $2, he would have admission. But we made him. But first he had to lay down and pee on his own face.

No way. And he did it? Yeah, he was able to reach. Who is this? Just my buddy. You said his name earlier. I was hoping we could send this to him. Roll it back.

All right. All right. Half a point to Patrick. Correct. Dislike, but okay. All right. Next is embryonic diapause. Man,

sounds like menopause. Yeah. Boreonic. Do you think it's an embryo that's in menopause? I think it's when one embryo eats its twin inside the womb. Yeah. I was trying to think what dia means. and that means two, I think,

or for some reason I think it means two. Am I wrong? So embryonic diapause. I'll say that that means when there is an embryo that is growing in the womb or the egg or whatever. Another one is beginning to grow,

but it gets paused and eaten by the other embryo. So the same thing, Pat said. Oh, was it eaten? Did you say that? It's okay. You can go same. All right, fine.

I'm going to say embryonic diapause. is when an animal pauses development of the embryo due to environmental stress. Ah, that's smart. Jesus. I'm going to give a half point for us. Oh, okay.

Yeah, what is the half point? It says it's a pause in embryo development until the conditions improve. That's a full point. That's a full, that's not a half a point.

He knew and he's just pretending. No, I actually didn't. I just put it together. That's a full point, though. That's literally what I said. But you didn't include the until the conditions improved. No, I said it pauses it because of environmental stress.

Obviously, it unpauses. It doesn't terminate it. Let's call Edwin to be the judge. I'll vote for the full point, but please don't argue with Kyle. Okay. Yes. I felt good about that. It's been a while since I got one of these.

Fair enough. That's a full point. He was really emotional about it. He sold me on his case. All right. All right. Next is trog, troglodyte. I mean, I know it, so I'll go last.

I just didn't want either of you to help him with it. I'll just say this is Forrest. He's a troglodytide. I don't know what it is. So to me, it sounds like one of those fossilized, like, horseshoe crab creatures. It does sound very much. Hold on. I'll say this.

So I know that that is an insult that has been thrown at me. And I've heard it, I think, in popular media. So I want to say that a troglodyte, I'm envisioning, like, let's say it's a somewhat, like a microscopic, like, organism that's very small, but it's very ugly. I'm going to say ugly microscopic organism. Let me give you guys a hint. Okay. Humans can be troglodytes.

Oh, they can actually be troglodytes? Yes. So they can be ugly microscopic organisms? No. Oh, okay. All right. So for me, just take out microscopic and same answer. Very ugly.

Yeah, ugly organism. Okay. All right, well, it's definitely not a small fossilized creature then. I'm going to say a troglodyte is just generally a, a buffoon. I got ugly organism, buffoon. It's something that lives in a cave. That is a good insult.

What is it? What is it? The definition here is animal adapted to caves. Now, why do you know that? He loves caves. He loves caves. Just a cave guy.

He is a big cave guy. Yeah. Okay. Again, found many, many, in fact, named a species that we found in a cave. Didn't know it was called a troglodyt.

All right. So cave dweller. Cave dweller. Yeah, like a buffoon. I mean, kind of that's what... That's pretty... That's adjacent. If you're like, if you're a buffoon enough

that you go live in a cave, you're a troglodyte. Yep. Great horror movie. What the fuck is it called? God damn it. Never mind. It's a great horror movie about... That's a Nribal...

It's a Western. It's got a great name. What the fuck is it called? Bone Tomahawk. Bone Tama hoc. They use the word troglodyte in that movie a lot. If you haven't seen it and you like horror movies and westerns, it's great. It's a good combo.

I like that. I like that a lot. All right. What are we going to do. All right. One and a half for Patrick, Forrest with one, Peter, zero. Fuck off. Next is For McCary.

I've heard this. This is very... The next two words I know, but don't know. I know the next two, but I, and I've heard Formicary. Fuck. So, Formacary is a form of fornication where two canaries... have sex with their parents. It's like Michael Scott putting words together.

And that's my role in the podcast. I'm the Michael Scott of the podcast. I do think it has to do with a bird. I think it's a very large flightless bird. No, it's not that. It's not. Man, I know the next two words. Shut up.

We're on this one. Okay, I know. I know. I see the list, though. All right, I'm going to say formicary is, Formicare is an animal that Oh, I'm sorry, dead air. All right, I'm trying to hit my brain with it.

It's okay. All right, it's an animal that, um, whoops its pants. I don't know. I don't know. I just kind of remember. And this will be the last one, I'm calling it right now. We need to do a few more.

I like this game a lot. Okay, I got it. Here's my answer. Formicari is an animal that will keep its young on its back. I like it. It's something. It says the word carrying. Just give me a point.

Formicary is an ant nest. Okay. No. That's called an ant nest. That's very lame. No. A form of carry. What's a fomacary?

What's a gaggle of ants called? What's a gaggle of ants? What's a group of ants called? Do we know? An army. An army. An army of ants in their form of carry, dude. I like that.

Well, we'll start talking like this. Can you look up what it's called when an animal carries its young on its back? There's definitely a term for it. I would just say it's called an animal carrying its young on its back. but there's got to be a name for it. This will be added on the next game we play. What were you going to say, Pat? You said hopefully.

No good. Hopefully people are learning. Let's do one or two more. I like the game. Let's skip the next two. No. Let's go to nine. Do whatever one you want, Kyle.

I'm going to go with the next one. Let's go with the next ruminant. Oh, you go first. Well, so I know when you get angry and you can't let something. go that's called ruminate to ruminate on something so you stew umminant is like a uh i'm gonna say it's an archaeological uh remnant from the triglassic period where i'm trying to like tie it up it has something to do with bones under dirt okay uh i'm gonna say that it's an animal that

grazes on grass. I think that's right, but I think it also is an animal that has four stomachs, if I'm not mistaken, like a cow. Wow. Full point for forest. Is that what it is? The four stomachs. It's multi-chambered stomachs. Also, also choose cud. Yeah,

choose cud. So half a point. Yeah, half point for Patrick, full point for forest. Well, so you said grass. Yeah. That's not, I mean, that, I mean, cud might be grass, but that's not the word you used. Doesn't matter. Don't argue with Kyle. That was the deal.

God damn. All right. Are we doing any more? I like this. Yeah. Let's go on. I was just kidding about ending. This one's worth five points, actually.

Okay. And we're going to go with. Not much word he picks here. Yeah. If he can pronounce it. He's trying to find one he can pronounce. Dead air. I'm going to go with.

Quick. Piscivorous. Piscivorous. All right. Pisivorous, maybe. Pissivorous. I don't know it. Pesivorous.

Piscoporius. I think it's Pesvirus. It sounds like a runner with no legs who shoots his girlfriend. Petroria. I thought his name was Pitorius. Pistorius. Pesverous. Pesverous, man.

All right, I'm going to go last so I can have some hints or something, some ideas. I think I know it. So I kind of think I. Well, I'm guessing. I think it's an animal that eats exclusively fish. Yeah. Fish eating. Oh, okay.

I guess I get five points. Yeah, that's correct. Do one more. That one. You picked a word that the Latin of it is exact translation. Yeah. Well, that makes sense.

And it is Piskavorous. But I know you know the rest of these. I do. There's one that he might not know. Try it. Well, I know all the rest except 10. Let's try it.

All right. Let's go with 10. Run it. Run it. 10 is Sicilian. Well, that's a person who was born in Sicily. Spelled a little different.

Do you know this one? I do. But that's okay. A Sicilian is a very, I'm sticking with fish, it's a very small fish. You're not super far off. Here's the thing. The rest, well, no, I guess not all of them. A Sicilian is, in my opinion, one of the coolest animals alive today.

And any time it's named after an animal, you know I'm going to get it. Yeah, yeah. A Sicilian is this weird amphibious snake-looking creature. Oh, fuck! You knew that? I knew that. Look at them. Oh, wow.

Look at this. They'll, they'll, did a thing with Jeff Corwin. where he was playing with these. You did? It looks like a milipede. Look at their mouths. Go to over. In fact, I think we've pulled that up once before on the pod.

I remember because I think I had said or somebody said that that's what definitely what the creators of the alien movie based the tongue mouth monster off of. Egg laying and they'll protect their young. If you go to that, I think it's a very first picture. They are crazy. And you know what's crazy? I just found this out. They have these in the Everglades, right?

Yeah, they do. We saw one. I was with Billy. Remember Billy who worked on The Wild Times? Yeah, Billy. Billy and I went out after AnimalCon two years ago, and he's like, I know a spot to get Sicilians, and we saw one from the bridge,

and we like ran down around, like, from this bridge to the rocks, and it disappeared into a rock, and we never found it. And that's the closest I've ever come to seeing one. It's crazy. I mean, it's tough. Like, I feel like if you didn't know about animals, if you saw that, you'd be like,

I think it's a really big worm. But check this out. Kyle, type in swamp eel. Oh boy. Is that what it's called? Swamp eel? Hold on. No, that's the wrong thing.

I'm looking right now, but you can buy Sicilians. Look up Sicilian for sale at like fish stores. They call them some kind of eel. They're not an eel, but they call them that. And you can get them for your aquarium, which is insane. Yeah. Also, there's a bunch of animals that are kind of like that. There's a Sicilian.

There's a siren. Yep. What's the other one? Olm. Yeah, there's one more too. Try to think what else you could be thinking of. Oh, there's the Mexican mole. Are you thinking of those guys?

God damn, and I'm getting a little tipsy. Yeah, that's good. Dude, the light strikes are great. They are great, but I got, we got, we got it. This is a, this is, we were talking about bucket list earlier. This guy right here, this is probably one of the number ones on my. Wait, does it have feet? Yeah, just front two little feet.

How cool is that? That's crazy. Yeah, isn't that? So, yeah, Amphespinian. Oh, amphiuma is what I was. Amphiuma, yeah, that's similar. So these are bipes right here. And they live in,

southern Baja, like where you just were in your Cabo, they find them in the ground in like fence posts and things. And they're these crazy little lizards that have these two front front feet. Yeah. They just crawl along through the dirt. They're so cool. It's literally a cross between a worm, a lizard, and a naked mole rat. Isn't that crazy? It's so crazy. That is weird. Isn't it so cool? Weird and wild stuff. There's a guy on Instagram, creatures of Baja, pull his, uh, his IG up real quick. Um, he, he finds them all the time. And they're not like an easy animal to find. They're subterranean creatures. They live under the ground. Yeah, you got to dig for

that shit. I don't know how this guy finds him so often. Well, I feel like if you make it your mission to look for that, humans can do and find anything. That's true. But you would never just come across one. True, but still really, really cool. Maybe I don't know. Maybe his Instagram's not public, but I was trying to find what they call

the eels. Well, before you do that, let's end the show. Good night, everybody. Okay. Hey, thanks for listening. Rubber eel. Google. Rubber eel. Now do the thing. All right. Go to wild times. Dot Club forward slash info, dude. We do six podcasts every single month and only two of them are public.

There's four. Go get them. It's not expensive. People love them. We do weird, wacky shit on all of them brackets. Fun stuff. We talk about other shows that you guys have worked on and all kinds of stuff. And we do our regular and normal podcast stuff.

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Nice. I think I'm a little too drunk to carry on. Yeah, that was... It didn't sound it. No, I know, it just happened just to end. Got it. You're only two light strikes in, my boy. I'm telling you, they do you in.

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