Wild Times: Wildlife Education - Florida Government Tries To Destroy State Parks - TWT 155

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

Florida's government tries (and cancels) plans to destroy state parks and put in golf courses, a humpback whale survives after losing its tail, and some of the best scuba diving in the world. Enjoy! Eight Sleep: Go to https://www.eightsleep.com/wildtimes and use code WILDTIMES to get $350 off Pod 4 Ultra. Pretty Litter: Go to https://prettylitter.com/wild to save 20% on your first order and get a free cat toy. Hello Fresh: Go to https://hellofresh.com/twtkids to get one free kids' meal per box for two months while the subscription is active. Get More Wild Times Podcast Episodes: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wildtimespod/subscribe https://www.patreon.com/wildtimespod More Wild Times: Instagram: http://instagram.com/wildtimespod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildtimespodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildtimespod/ X: https://x.com/wildtimespod Discord: https://discord.gg/ytzKBbC9Db Website: https://wildtimes.club/ Merch: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/merch Battle Royale Card Game: https://wildtimesmedia.thrivecart.com/battle-royale/ Our Favorite Products: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thewildtimespodcast Music/Jingles by: www.soundcloud.com/mimmkey TWT 155: 00:00 - Start 03:44 - Florida Golf Courses 11:53 - Whale with No Tail 19:39 - Diving in Galapagos 28:37 - Childhood Dreams 38:23 - Native Language Animal Game 47:31 - What Are These Animals Trained To Do 55:46 - Forrest Saves Bees This video may contain paid promotion. #ad #sponsored #forrestgalante #extinctoralive #podcast

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We all know it's not a cookout without Heinz and Kraft. Yeah. Oh yeah. Ooh! Here we go. We're back. You know that who thing that I do at the top? Who?

That, like the make-a-loud sound. Yeah. My buddy came and visited with me a couple weeks ago, and he's like, dude, I love your podcast. I listen to everyone. He lives in Kentucky. He's like, I sit on the mower for an hour and a half and listen. He's like, when you start the show, I'm sitting on my mower. I have the volume all the way up in my headphones because the mower's loud.

And you go, woo! At the beginning, he's like, I have to fucking pull my headphones off. That's, that's, that should be mitigated in the post-production. So don't stop doing it. No, keep doing it louder. And all right, everybody can punish Kyle. So wait, where does this guy live? He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Oh, man. Louisville. Imagine having a yard that took an hour and a half to mow on a rider. Four acres. He just goes up and down. He gets the lines. He says, he puts a pot. He says, it's my weekly vacation.

He's like, I get away from the family. I put the headphones in. I sit on the mower for an hour and a half, make perfect lines. He's like, I love it. No, it is part of my week. It's a frame of mind thing because that's how I've started to begin to look at like doing cardio exercise. I'm like, it's a chance to get away.

Yeah, it's great. All right. So this is for you, Chad. For the fourth time. Of course, his name's Chad also. He's a Chad. I got to say, man, I'm excited. This is, you know, it's Monday.

It's Monday. Friday, I'm going on a little vacation, a little resort vacation. Oh, yeah. Well, I'm going. It's my fantasy football draft, baby. Oh, it's that time of year. And, uh, yeah, and, uh, going with five, five of my buddies from my league. We're all bringing our families sitting in a resort for three days.

Nah, Scottsdale, baby. Oh, that's right. You do Scottsdale. And, uh, your shirts really just like, I feel like I'm already on vacation. vacation now. My shirt? Yeah. Yeah, it's a chubby shirt. I love it. I'm not going to lie. For those who are only listening, Forrest showed up in full vacation mode, Hawaiian shirt. It's midsummer. Very short shorts. Yeah. They're the five inch scenes. You might want to reduce. Yeah. I was trying to get a three inch seam. Apparently, they don't make such a thing. It's just called a speedo. And he hopped out of his giant like monster tire truck. Taking up two spots of the very first spot at the door we enter.

And before I got here, I moved a shopping cart. He brought a shopping cart with him. in the trunk. And you just, tell me you left it in the parking lot. I did. Yeah. For the next person.

Yeah. For the next person to run into with their car. Speaking of being on vacation mode, it's midsummer, we've had a photo contest going most of the summer. Decided to extend it a week. We're going to pick the winner next week.

So don't forget to throw your photos in. We end the competition on September 15th. So I will say this. A handful of people, Kyle has been meticulously like reverse image searching every. Yeah, quit being dick. And so he's weeded out a few people who just posted like, you know, Smithsonian photos and stuff like that.

I will say, of the ones that are proven to be original, I am shocked by the amount of photography talent that the listeners have. I mean, some of like, legit the coolest pictures I've ever seen. Better than Smithsonian photography. Some of them, yeah, man. Some of them could be in the wildlife photography of the year, competition. Agreed. Some of them are beautiful. What are we going to do is if we're going to throw down a frame.

back there. It's going to fucking be in our studio hanging up. There is. We're going to find a spot for it. We don't know where. There's a short list going, because we've been going through and favoriting. Get yourself on that short list. It's going to be tough. I didn't do intros. I'm going to skip that. We're too deep.

We're too deep in. Hey, Skinny Pete. I'm Peter. Skinny Pete. What's in the news? What's in the news? Can I read it? Yeah. It's from the underground. Floridians bulk at administration plan to build

golf courses and pickleball courts at state parks Florida wide. So let me, before we dig into this, I'm going to get some hate for saying this. A nice pickleball court at a park sounds lovely. Why is that an issue? It's almost reminding me of the beach volleyball court at the Olympics where the Eiffel Tower was in the background. Fantastic. What's wrong with that?

I'd love to. I'd love to. Well, here's what's wrong with it. Florida scrub jays and other endangered species face new threats due to the proposed building of not necessarily the pickleball course, but the golf course, the pickleball course, the hotels, all these things that Governor Ron DeSantis,

his administration has said, these are a good idea, let's go ahead and build these things in state parks across Florida. So what it really does is it's taking away from native species. In a state where, let's be honest, these are vital sanctuaries for wildlife

because there is such rapid urbanization across the state. Like Florida is basically a giant parking lot at this point in time. Parking a lot with big scary lizards. and so these little natural spaces need to remain natural. So, well, you know, that was my setup being like, it sounds good. It's not good.

It's actually a bad thing. I think there's a bit of an element of any time now you want to build a golf course on any natural area. It's automatically linked to and everybody who hates Donald Trump will get on your ass about it because that's like his thing. Everybody hates. What, golf courses? Building golf courses everywhere and like, like, you know, destroying land. The golf course is sort of like the sign of wild space going away because they take up so much water to keep them green. It's like anti-conservatism almost.

The pickleball court, though, is pretty small. That seems more manageable. I don't think it was just going to be one. Yeah, singular pickleball court in the heart of the wilderness. It's a bit of a line. I saw that pickleball was in the Olympics and I was like, this is a real sport? Are you sure? Kyle, backchecked that. I think he's a liar.

Because you think like this is a sport where drunk people come and get very close. with a tiny net and a weird like ball they have to keep in the air, right? Have you guys played it? I've still never played it. Yeah. They played it in gym when I was in high school constantly. Are you thinking of a different sport? Are you thinking of table tennis?

No, it's the one with the weird little, what's the ball called? It's like a wiffle ball. It's got a bottom red thing. No, that's badminton. Badminton? You loon. Oh, what's a pickle ball?

Badminton. Wait, quick. Nobody look. Patrick, you answer the last because I feel like for some reason you know this. Kyle, what do you call the ball in badminton? Oh, gosh. bad ball. I don't know. I kind of know, but I don't know. Better. Better. A mitten. Patrick?

The shuttlecock. The shuttlecock, baby. Best name in ball sports. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Nearly named my second board shuttle. By the way, I will say, I was, I was watching some fucking badminton on the Olympics. It is a good watch. Dude, it's a good live, like, good TV sports. So this is what I was talking about, though. Crazy. So, but this is what I was talking about. I just had the name rock. So it is an Olympic sport. It is badminton, right? Always has been. But it's like I was, My point was, is like, I played this in gym and I felt like it was just a bunch of, like, fat teenagers kind of lumbering around, like, bopping this weird shuttlecock. No, it was in gym class. Badminton at the professional level is impressive.

With that weird shuttlecock ball thing? But, dude, pickleball is a phenomenon that has become popular. I think it kind of started for people who wanted to play tennis but didn't want as much stress on the joints. But weren't athletic. But it's really fun. Yeah, I've heard that. I've heard it's a blast. Never played. I would really like to. I feel like I'm too far now. It's like, it's like, I'm, you know, like I missed it. I didn't. I love Game of Thrones. But if you told somebody you were starting it now, they'd be like, they're not really going to talk to you about that.

Yeah. It's a tall downhill. You're what, 36? We've talked about everything there is to talk about related to Game of Thrones. So update though, this got proposed for these golf courses. And by the way, as we sort of started down this road, Golf course are bad for a number of reasons. The runoff, the fertilizer runoff and the lawn care is a big issue. But update as of yesterday morning, a Florida agency says that a group behind the State Park golf courses has withdrawn their plans due to a massive outcry, a ton of signatures. I saw it was all over my social media. Everybody was pinging it and tagging me and being like, hey, help stop the golf courses.

So it seems like this proposed plan is backped. It's nice that the public can get a voice when they do shit like this in today's society. Normally it's all just like social media is killing children. But it's like it actually gives a little bit of power back to the public to change things like this. I'm not a golfer. I don't enjoy the sport. I played once with Mitch and I want him to hear this. I beat him on the one and only.

What? True story. He's like a big golfer. We went to this fancy golf place out in Missouri, like Tiger Woods special golf course out there. Yeah. I didn't play the first hole. This looks stupid. Never played the second hole and beat him.

Got a birdie. A birdie on a professional golf course. And then played the next hole. And I think I hit an 11 on a par three. So I wasn't, it was definitely a fluke on the first one. And then I was like, I'm done and I just went to drinking.

But I'm glad because I don't like golf courses. There's too many of them. I don't understand why everybody wants to stand around in funny pants and hit that fucking ball. Like it's not that cool of a sport. Just play a contact sport like a grown up. Yeah. I mean, maybe it's because they get to wear funny clothes like that.

that you're wearing. This is a very golfy shirt. It's very golfy in Hawaii. You should feel how soft it is. I don't think you could golf in those shorts. They're too short? I think they're too short. You get a rip?

Yeah. Trying to stretch. They were gonna also, people were outraged because they were going to take part of the plan was to make room for the courses. They were going to remove all the staff housing. Oh, interesting. Like the park rangers and stuff.

Oh my God. So it was a pit of a fucked up. It's like a bad plan. It's like rich guy comes in. He's like, I want to bulldoze everything. and flatten it and make grass here with some holes in it. Wild. Yeah.

I mean, Florida is basically a giant retirement home with golf courses at this point. Well, there's like Miami and stuff with the club scene and the Cubans and all that. Oh, boy, Patrick and I had a night in Miami. Let me tell you. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. It sounds like you guys shacked up. What happened?

What was the name of that club seven? Is there a club called? Seven. Eleven. That's it. No, I was close. How do you know, Kyle? Don't worry about it.

Okay. He knows. Goodness, he's been there with Forrest, too, dude. You're not the only one. We shut that place down. Yeah, we had no idea what we were doing. We had a night out after we did a bunch of shark stuff. Yeah.

Because we were flying out of Miami. And we were with Neil Peter's buddy, who's a doppelganger for Steve Aoki. Sure is. And he was very much embracing it, had the hair down. Yeah, yeah. We told everybody he was Steve A. Okay. And they probably believed you.

Yeah, they were just like, I didn't know Steve Aoki was 4'9. Yeah. But yeah, we started the night at the Clevelander. Yep. Had some cocktails. And then the next thing I know, we're at this fucking nightclub. And then the next thing I know, Mitch is buying like two of the giant gray goose bottles. Oh my God.

And it just got, it got turnt. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. That sounds like my experience at AnimalCon last year when I... No, no. Very different. You just sent it by yourself. Those are two different.

So there's a whole lot of people around hanging out with me. And I... But my point is, is that you probably just woke up. the next day and you were like, huh? Nobody called you poppy at AnimalConty. Somebody did draw something on my butt. That's true. But also none of us ran across a four lane in each direction highway to try and go to a 7-Eleven after beer sales and close.

Speaking of on, we'll be at Animal Con this year, October, what are the dates? Fourth, the weekend. Weekend of October 4th. Come and visit us. It's going to be live streaming. It's going to be fun. Dude. We're sending it up this year.

It's a lot more engagement for the crowd. It's going to be like a podcast that we're doing there, more so than like interviews. There's a lot of engagement. People can line up and Peter will spit in your mouth. It's this new thing that we're trying. I prefer I fart in their mouth. All right.

We got another piece of news. That was a bad joke. All the women have tuned out. All right. There weren't any. That's true. So Kyle sent this. I haven't seen it yet.

Apparently there's a photo. Shocked scientists film humpback whale with no tail swimming down Washington Co. I don't know how a whale swims with no tail. I'm just going to say, it couldn't have been swimming. Is it limping? Is it, is it, what's it doing? Oh, wow, severed. Look at that. So they got a cool aerial photo.

Holy crap. How does it sever? It's like a UFO. It has no wings. It's just floating around. I don't know. That must be so hard. Maybe the body, maybe because the body. Oh, look, there's a video. Yeah, yeah. So it's kind of like undulating.

What can still go up and down. Well, but what's in, there's no propulsion. There's no paddle. And yet, so he's doing it all with his fins. With his front fins. That's crazy. Man, that must be taxing. I wonder, do they think that this whale has a shot to live

much longer, or do they think this is like on death? And how? Is this a boat strike? Or is this, Kyle, maybe you can find the info. Is this from a boat strike or is this from a shark attack? Well, this would be like if I just had weights on my legs and was trying to doggie paddle in the open sea.

Then you'd be even skinnier, Pete. Yeah, but still, like, I mean, I mean, I would last for about maybe an hour before I sunk to the bottom. Oh, so this is pretty sad. So it's from entanglement with fishing gear. Oh, man. It's most likely it got a rope wrapped around its tail. It's like when you put rubber band on a sheep's nuts or whatever and they fall off after a couple weeks.

That's terrible. It's interesting, though. It is terrible. But I know in Northern California, they've stopped. So you used to be able to go out and drop these crab pots with these long lines and a float. And you'd leave them overnight. come back the next day and your crab traps were full of crabs, right? For the last couple years at least, and I probably up into Oregon and Washington as well, you can't do that

any longer for whale entanglement. So you can go out and crabfish, but you have to like stay around your pots and wait and then pull them back up and you cannot leave them overnight. So they are taking action to not have this kind of thing. I mean, does he look normal? Is that a normal color? Yeah. It is. Okay. Outside of the tail, he looks normal. It's just, that's got to be pretty taxing for the poor guy. I just saw a friend of mine post. I just saw a friend of mine post. posted a picture she was diving with humpback whales. Just snorkeling, I think. Delightful.

Where? Can check. Doesn't matter. Didn't I pay attention because I'm not going to go do it. But it looked fucking amazing. I'm like, is this something you can just go do? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

A couple places. Where? The best place for humpbacks is Vavow Tonga. Okay. So I went there. We missed him by like three days. I was so bummed. So you just didn't get to do it at all?

No, we, I, I was going to Vavow regardless, because it's like one of those ocean paradise places, but the humpbacks come through there, and I mean, these are the photos you get. These are the things you do. Must add to the YouTube thing. Just thought of that. But yeah, no, I went there, this was many, many years ago with Jess, and the humpbacks had left like three days before we got there. Because they come in and move out.

Did you still go out on the boat and try? Oh, we went dove every day and did everything else. But we didn't target the whales because they just weren't there. So we literally went scuba diving, spearfishing, and all the other. fun stuff. Let me ask you this because my buddy Sam texted me and he's got a big birthday coming up and he's he's, he's always wanted to go to the Galapagos. He's he's, we've tried to pitch like three Galapagos shows just because he wants to, he's a TV host. Yeah. Um, but he's going to do it for his birthday and he was like, yo, you know, could he could have Googled this. Sure. But he was,

but he was like, yeah, you have a podcast. What's the best time a year to go? Like to give me a little, give me some tips on going, just having some awesome dives in the Galapagos. For diving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't know the specifics, but Kyle, maybe you look this up for us. When does the hammerhead migration go through the Galapagos? Because that's the thing that's basically around, you know, so. So there's a funny thing that's been going on on our, we have a group WhatsApp.

I know what you're going to say. We've gotten into a pretty intense competition that I think has actually been very beneficial to all of our health. It's called what it is. It's a sleep war. It's a, we're to sleep. Yeah. So we all, eight sleep is one of our favorite sponsors. So we each have a pod four. Yeah. And it's a heating and cooling system for your, for your bed, essentially. I go the coldest. I do minus 10. That's crazy. That's insane. A point of pride. I think his organs are frozen. But dude, you know, I'm, we've talked about it a million times. I'm an awful sleeper. Yeah. And so it gives you a sleep score. You can see how much did you snore. How much REM did you get? Yeah. And so every more. morning when we wake up, we all send the screenshot of our sleep score. And it's getting competitive.

Show us yours, Peter. You won today. You were very pleased. I think it was just like in the in the 89s or something. But that's good for me because the kids wake me up every night. But dude, there was the one, there was one night. It was the first night I set mine up that I got 10 hours and 14 minutes of sleep. And Forest was just like, I think you cooked the books. Yeah. Yeah. No, he did. He went in there and ended his sleep, his sleep score. He must have because I've never seen him sleep more than four hours ever. I will say this. It is, it's an investment, right? It's not, this is not a, it's not 50 bucks. Nope. Right. It is completely changed my relationship with sleep. I'm going to bed to, I'm getting two extra hours of sleep a night because I'm looking forward

to getting into my ice cold bed under my thick down comforter. This is shocking if you know this man. I've known him for over 10 years, he would fight to the death to not go. He'll fall asleep with a glass of wine on the couch. spill it straight into my own lap. It really changes your relationship with sleep. It did for me. My favorite baseball player, Aaron Judge, is a user of it. If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for us.

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Monopoly is a trademark of Hasbro. Hasbro is not a sponsor of this promotion. The Glovka's great all year long. You can get whales, seals, tiger sharks, blah, blah, blah, but for a couple months of the year, these giant schools of hammerheads come through. Kyle, what's the time of year for that? June to November. June to November, you get tens of thousands of hammerheads coming through.

So you get all the great diving. usually get, and then look out into the, you know, pelagic zone and there's a wall of hammerheads. And pelagic, what's that? Open ocean. Okay, pelagic, that means open ocean. We've had this combo. Pelagic is like somebody in a fucking nursing home sounds like they have that as a disease

or something. He's got a case of the pelagic. Is it a disability? Are you thinking paraplegic? Aren't hammerheads like vicious? You can't go in there with them, can you? No, you can. All hammerheads are fine.

Greater hammerheads are definitely the most dangerous, but these are scalloped hammerheads. that do these giant migrations. And they're actually pretty timid. You can't even get very good. Yeah, you got them up here on the screen. They're like incredible. Yeah. What are we talking?

Like, you're talking 500 hammerheads? Oh, you can get a school of 5,000. Wow. My goodness. That is insane. Like, look at that first photo. Yeah. You can get just walls of them like that.

I've seen them when we filmed in the Ravia Hijitos Islands off of Cabo. We got pretty big schools of them. But the schools we got were maybe 100 to 200. And in the Galapagos, they get thousands. And thousands and thousands. Wait, what were you filming there? Mystery of the Black Demon Shark. Ah, yeah.

Shark Week. Yeah. This was like eight years ago now. I got a little question. I mean, your friend wanted to know something, tap, Forrest Brain. I feel like I'm entitled to the same. I'm trying to plan a little camping trip. And I saw somebody posted on in the Reddit, Los Angeles subreddit, the most expensive

place national park that you can go to in one of them. It's like the top three. it is the Channel Islands National Park. Oh, why is that the most expensive? Well, because most national parks, yeah, because you got to, like, get there. You got to pay like 60 bucks. And if you want to bring gear and, like, stuff like that, it's even more. Fair enough.

So I want to go. And, like, because me and my friend have been trying to plan a camping trip. My friend and I. I'll kill you. Because it's expensive. Out of space. No, no, because I was like, oh, I had never thought, like, of this. And I started obviously researching it and looking into it.

Kyle Alto over there. Yeah. Here's what you're going to do. I want to camp. Keep that in mind. So I got to bring all that shit with me. Hey, hey, listen up, fella. Can you drive me? Can you be quiet?

Can you shut the fuck up? Can you drive me? Remember when I gave you the perfect California road trip and you did half of it and you're like, this was amazing? Yeah, I'm there. I'm there. You did it. You did like half of it. You did like half of it.

Here's what you're going to do. Okay. Watch the hand. Here's what you're going to erase the board and you're now going to draw the picture. I'm going to rewrite it for you. You're going to come to Santa Barbara. Okay. Okay?

You're going to get a lovely night in a hotel? Is it just you and your buddy, or you're taking the wife and kids? Well, I think we're doing a broke-back thing, so I think we're going to go just us. Real smart. I can't tell you. First letter. N. J.

No, not N. I know who it is. He's going to bring a ukulele. Yeah, that's the one. You do know who it is. He's the most fun person to camp with him. Okay. All right.

Listen up here. Here's what you're going to do. You're going to come to Santa Barbara. Yeah. You're to spend the night in Santa Barbara. You stay in my house, if you like, get a hotel, whatever you want. Thank you. Early the next morning,

circa 8 a.m. We're going to meet on the alley in the Santa Barbara Harbor Harbor. Kyle, get your fucking Googling on. Come on. We're going to meet it on the alley. Take notes,

please, Kyle. We're going to get breakfast burritos, okay? And we're going to replace potatoes with tots. Okay. Bacon. Smart.

It's very detailed. It's very detailed. Then we're going to take those. We're going to go next door to dark coffee, get a lovely latte. Yes. Then we're going to hop on my boat.

I'm going to run you across to Scorpion, Kyle, Scorpion Anchorage, Santa Cruz Island. I'm going to drop you off right there with your buddy. You're going to go, this is where you're going to camp. While there, you're going to do a couple things. You're going to sit on the beautiful beach.

You're going to look at the crystal clear water. You're going to go for a snorkel. And most importantly, you're going to hang out with the endemic Channel Island foxes that are going to come out. Oh, I read about these. They're gorgeous. This is one of the things I was reading about. These little guys, they're going to come climb all over your tent. You're going to get to see them.

Yeah, they'll be right up on your lap. Oh, my God. If you leave food out there all over you. Now I am like fucking doing this soon. You're going to have a couple nights there? Look at how tight it is. For those who are listening, Kyle has shown us a picture of this Channel Island Fox that is literally the size of a mouse.

It's maybe the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life. Holy cow, man. Like a squirrel-sized fox. That's cuter than a Phenic Fox. Holy crap. They're unbelievable. And they only live on Santa Cruz Island. Yeah, yeah.

Scorpion Anchorage. That's what I was reading. They live on a few, but yeah. Channel Island. Then, after two nights, we're going to meet at a. certain time. I'll pick you up in my boat and take you back home. Now here's, yes. Done. Done. All right. This sounds incredible. Don't weigh in. I'm not going. Okay. So here's my concern. Okay. What's your concern? Are you and your ukulele playing friend,

good scavengers and hunters and survivalists? We've camped in places where there's nothing. It's not like, it's just like a shit in the fucking ground place. Okay. No, but here's, that didn't answer the question. Here's more of the issue. Okay. forest drops you off on Friday. I will see you Sunday at 2. So 48 hours. Is there cell reception on this island? Very, very limited.

I've been placed with no cell. So sure, sure, sure, sure. So at 2 o'clock, he hasn't shown up. You hike up to the place that has cell reception that you discovered the previous night while you were on mushrooms crying. No, I wouldn't be crying. Yeah, mushrooms for sure, though. Okay.

And you go up and at 3.30, you call him and go, hey, everything okay? And he goes, what? And you go, everything okay? And he goes, oh, dude. He's not you. I'm in Florida. No, that's, that's insane. By the way, it's not that insane.

You would never do that. Like, he, like, I, I, no, he does not have the fucking, like, memory of a goldfish, like other people that I know. No, it's that something more exciting is going to come up on Saturday. That I, there is a certain percent of course in Carpenteria fucking diddling. hammerhead sharks and be like, dude, I can't be there till like Monday or Tuesday. You're good. Well, I'd have to be like, just eat some cactus flowers.

Can you run your wife out with some supplies for Christ's sake? So to be clear, for the scamsite, you do need to take everything. Your tents, your sleeping bags, your food, your cooker, everything. If and inevitably when I decide to not pick you up because something more exciting is happening, you can hop on the ferry that comes twice a day. Okay. Oh, it comes to that island. Twice a day.

To that exact campsite. Santa Cruz is a pretty popular one, as I've read. Just for camping. It's not like Catalina where there's bars and restaurants and hotels. It's just a campsite. That's not Channel Islands, is it? Catalina. Yeah, they're all part of the Channel Islands.

Oh, I had no idea. Catalino is part of the Channel Islands. They're all the Channel Islands. But the Northern Channel Islands, what people refer to as the Channel Islands are Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel. Gotcha. And those are all like, that's like all the state park area or whatever. So there's no infrastructure out at this spot.

Oh my god. It's the biggest podcast for Paa in the world. Bullshit. I had my phone on Do Not Disturb. I can even see the little moon symbol. It must be an emergency. It's Eric. It's your producing partner.

It is my partner and I... Look, do not disturb. No, I'm not doing that. He would be mad, wouldn't he? Absolutely. It wouldn't be. Well, because here's why I wanted you to pick up, because you were going to pick up and he was going to go,

what the fuck is the problem with blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, 100%. Yeah, exploding about something. Yeah. No question. I love that relationship, though. I don't understand why my phone just... I'm on, do not disturb.

Dude, it's got to be an emergency, man. His mom's dying or something. So there's no infrastructure at this beach? No. So there's... Pull it up again, Kyle. Scorpion Anchorage, Santa Cruz Island. It looks nice clear water.

Snorkel in, right? There's a dock, and you can see it there, and you unload on that dock right there. And then there's a tiny little ranger station and some porta-potty type bathrooms. And that's it. Otherwise, it's a campground. And right there, go the right, go the right.

Emerald Cave swim through. Beautiful. Just took the wife and kids to do that like two weeks ago. Road set was the coolest thing he's ever done. So what do you do? Do you like rent a kayak or you got to bring it? You can rent kayaks right there on the beach. Holy shit.

This sounds like even way more incredible than I was picturing. It's a treat, dude. I'm telling you. I used to do it every summer with Jess. We'd take the ferry over. We'd camp there for a couple days. We'd kayak around. You know, then I got the boat and I go and do my own little adventures.

But before then, this is where we'd go. Yeah. I'm going to hold you up to it. We're going to do it. It's happening probably in the, fall coming up here. It's the best time of year. As soon as kids go back to school,

because the water, a lot of people don't know this, but in California, our water gets warmer and warmer until October and then starts to cool down. Sure, yeah. So you think you want to go midsummer, you don't.

You want to go September, October. The kids are back at school. The water's the clearest, the calmest, and the warmest, and it's just the nicest weather. I'll tell you my... Sounds magical. My, you know,

you're 12, 12 years old. Like your 12-year-old me. I have the same voice. Same personality. Same beard. But, you know, you're first starting to, like, you know, get those feelings about, for me, it was about the ladies. Oh, yeah. But you don't really know what that is.

You just, like, think people are attractive and you're kind of not sure what to do with it. I remember those days. Yeah. Yeah. My original fantasy that I would think about was that I was on a camping trip with Vanna White. Oh, I like this. I like this. The lady who turns the letters on Wheel of Fortune.

Dude, she was hot. She was super hot. We're talking going back like 30 years here. I like this a lot. She's still hot. You're going to go Vana White like 92. 1990s. Yeah.

Yeah. Dude. She's still hot. Even at 85. Yeah. What a treat. What a treat. Wow.

My scenario, because I needed it to be realistic. Yeah. Was that I had my tent. Uh-huh. And Vana White had her tent. Didn't have any tent pulls. Oh, no. So she couldn't set up her tent.

And it started raining. And I said, come on into my tent. Yeah. Wow. Like a gentleman would. But then it was just me sleeping in a tent with Vanowai. Yeah, but that was good enough. Like I didn't go any further in the fantasy.

Of course, I didn't know what to do. I have a similar one. I want to hear yours, Peter. Everybody had one. Okay. Go ahead. You want to hear mine first? No, you go.

Well, dude, first of all, like, I'm laughing so hard on the inside because I'm so confused that it didn't go any further. I'm literally talking like fourth, fifth, sixth grade. Yeah. These are the early days. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah.

It is. Before I go into it, though, I was thinking like it really is like you come up with these very convoluted and in depth imaginative ideas when you first start getting horny. Sure. Yeah. No, I mean, mine was just every teacher I had. No way.

No matter how ugly or momish looking they were, 45 didn't matter. Mr. Robinson is looking dreamy today. Yeah, it was like I end up in detention after school or something and now I'm in there with them alone and it's just like, ooh. That's interesting because I had a similar... Detention. Detention. I had a similar fantasy.

It shows how young I was to Patrick's. But it was, it was Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney Spears' little sister. Wow. I saw her on like a Nickelodeon show. And I was like, she was so hot. She was. And she was like... About age, too, right?

Yeah. And yeah, this was like before she looked. But I don't remember... I don't know if I could say that. Nope, edit. Just bleep it. And she was driving for some reason and the car broke down. Nice.

And like Patrick, that was where the fantasy ended. We were just stuck in the car together. It's so weird. I guess like I just don't remember it. I must have done the same thing. I mean, I must have. I just, it didn't make an impactful vision.

It's funny that even though you don't know where you want it to go. Yeah. You still need to like make it believable that you have this forced proximity to this woman who would have no interest in you otherwise. 100%. to her. You wouldn't know what to say. You wouldn't know how to conduct yourself. Nothing. You just sit there quietly in the car with that person. Oh, it's, it's grotesque. So there was a girl in my grade that, and this is now seventh grade, to where other people were doing stuff. Yep. But I

hadn't and didn't. I'm still playing G.I. Joe's. And I had told my best friend, he knew I had a massive crush on this girl for years, two, three years at this point. Yeah. And he was like, if she asked you to marry her and you had to commit to it right now, would you do it? I was like, in a second. Without even thinking about it. In a second. So we have a fire drill. We go outside and I just gotten these pretty sweet puke orange Converse All-Stars.

Oh, nice, dude, though, for real. Yeah, I like that Auburny, nasty color. Lovely. And she comes up, steps on them and grabs my shoulders and was like, I like, I like your shoes. Can I borrow them? And I just go, no. and then she just walked away and I literally never talked to her again.

You didn't know what to do. You panicked. I just looked at my feet and went, no. Dude, I have a much worse one than that and I was eight like 17 in high school, senior year.

This girl, her name was Michelle, she was like one of the very popular girls. I like rode in all the different groups because I like wasn't a jock. I wasn't like a nerd, but I like wasn't. But you also definitely.

with the hardcore drug users. Yeah, absolutely. That was later. That was later in life. People respected me for some reason because I had gotten into some fights and like they didn't want to mess with me. And like people thought I was like, I don't know, a cool or a bad boy or something.

What happened? I was kidding. I mean, I just, this is just what I got assigned the label as from what I can deduce. But anyways, this really, uh, and she was like the really hot girl.

And I was dating another girl from a different school. And I broke up with the girl from the other school. And she was like a friend that I'd been friends with for three or four years. And so I felt bad, but I was like, I'm going to go on a date. She asked me out this girl on a date. She wrote, she grabbed my notebook and wrote like, hey, you're cute. I'm cute. That's huge.

That's huge. Let's go out. Dream. Yeah. That never happened to me once. Obviously, I was like, obviously I was like I was a total like, I didn't go out with girls. Like I wasn't like in the popular crowd.

I didn't know how to handle girls. She probably had been handled many, like different. Well, different ways. She had been handled. Well, you know what I mean? From like the football star probably. he was like, yeah, babe, that's right. So you took her to the malt shop.

No, I didn't take her to the malt shop. We went to this party of a mutual friend, which was basically just like, uh, the, the friend was dating an older guy and they had an apartment together. And so it was just like an apartment party. And I was so nervous that I was just like,

like, guzzling hard booze. Sure. And so I, you never. But you don't know like, you know, like here I can guzzle hard booze and carry a buzz

through the whole podcast recording session. When you're that age, I was just like, I need to be called my nurse. Manic. I was literally slur-ass drunk, like, to the point where, and then she came up and I was like, like, still didn't know what to say. Like, I was still nervous, even though I was hammered, which is a thousand times worse. Right. You're nervous and drunk.

And some other, like, and then there was some other guy there. He was like a big, like, like, dressed in all black, like, just like, ugh, like, like a fucking punk rocker, dude, hitting on her totally. And she was eating on her. it up because this is the world I'm not in. A mess. Well, I'm also like not in there. She was probably trying to make me like do things and play the game and I

didn't know how to do any of it. So I ended up just getting shit-faced and like sitting down and talking to my already friends and basically ignoring her the whole time. That sounds about right. And then she never talked to me again. Last thing I'll say on this, then we'll play a game. I was just reminiscing with this. I'm reminiscing about this.

You remember, I don't know if this happens anymore because of the internet and kids growing up too fast these days. But you remember making out for like six hours? Yes. Just making out for, and it was great. It was the best thing in the world. Now you're like kiss for like a minute. You're like, Jesus Christ, what a waste of time. Well, yeah, I mean, in our age. Yeah, but dude, back then it was like, six hours of making

out. Your lips are sore the next day. You're like, man, that was awesome. Yeah. You're calling them on the phone. Like, oh my God, you're remembering that shit. Let's get under the blanket. Oh, yeah. What a treat. Yeah. Well, by the way, we are animals talking about animal things. I just want to say, like, this is animalistic behavior, even though we're human. Well, especially what you did when you're 17. We have a fun game here. All right. Speaking of being in young love, having a young relationship, there's one thing that always could have worked and none of us ever tried it. Cooking for a girl. Oh, boy, that would be advanced. I did it once. Well, I don't know how. I would burn pasta, but, you know, if Hello

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All right. We are going to play a game called Guess the Animal based on their native name. So across the globe, countless communities and tribes have their own unique names and their own languages for run-of-the-mill animals. This game has been put together with a bunch of different languages of names of animals. Kyle is going to go. to read it out, and then we're going to go Peter Patrick Forrest in guessing what the animal is. Now, for those who are about to hear this game, get ready. Get on the edge of your seat. Because there's nothing more fun than Kyle. I knew you were going to say that. Butchering the pronunciation. It can be a three-letter word and he'll figure out a way to say it wrong.

Ca'at? A cat? You know, last night I was looking through this and I was practicing. Get out. I still might get them wrong. He was on duolinga. I'm going to start saying ca-a-at every time. I need to say the word cat. Can I stroke your ca-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-all-all. This isn't a three-two-one, is it? No, no, no, no. All right. This is the first one. Shumba. Shumba. Shumba-Rumba. You're up first. Skinny pieces. So it's a run of the mill. Shumba. Shumba. I wish I had just a little bit more information, like what part of the globe or something, but I don't. So I'm going to have to go with this is a eye. I think this is, I'm just going plain and simple. I think this. I is a lion.

Correct. Oh, fuck all. Lion King. What's the, I was thinking Zambaian, language or

nation. It's Shana. It's Shana. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. What is Shana? Shana is the native language of Zimbabwe.

Oh, so he did that. I didn't know that everyone was doing this. Hey. No, Patrick got it. Not me. That's why he went out.

I mean, you knew it. You knew it. I did. All right. All right. Fair enough. Shumbah. All right, Kyle.

Have that this one. All right. You practiced. Hey, I'm not good enough. Kilo, Pilo Pizofi. Kilo Pizofi. That's pretty good. Kilo Pizofi.

You got it. Pilo Pizofi. Good job. Say that three times. Kilo Pizofi. It sounds like you know the accent of where that's from. I might. I'm going to go South America.

But I don't know anything that's from there. So I'll just say a hippo. Kilo Pilo Pizof. Kilo-Pi-Lopi-Sofi. Kilo-Pi-Lopi. That is Indonesian, and it's referring to an orangutan. Peter's correct. It's a hippo. I don't know how I know so many of these.

Edwin needs to come up with more obscure stuff. Do you know the language? It's German. It's not German. No, no. Oh, no, wait, it's Malagasy. It's Malagasy. That's where we'd heard it.

Wait, so Malagasy is the language of what country? That's what I was going to ask you. No, you guess based on the word Malagasy. Mala is from Malawi. Madagascar. That's not a country. That's a candy bar. That's right. I was like, I know this word, and I knew it was hippo, but I couldn't remember.

But it was from when we were doing four hippo. Pito. Pizofi. Yeah. Hippo's not extant on the island of Madagascar, by the way. But I guess this is what they call it. All right. What do we got next, Cal? All right. Next is Vashbar. A wushbar. Excellent job. He did a good job with that one.

Wushbar. What are those little The two... Umlots. The umlots above the day. I don't. Nope. A wushbar.

All right. Why don't you start then since I'm on the spot? Okay. Uh, the washbar. This one does sound German to me. I'm going to say it's something out of Namibia for a wildebeest. I think this...

Why, is Namibia a German colony? Yeah. Was once. You guys thinking two steps ahead. I think this is a wild boar. Yeah. But I was going to say it's a wild horse. Sound effect.

Yeah. Across the board. No, so it's actually raccoon in German. It was German, though. Washbar. Well, we knew that from the moon. What does it mean? Because it definitely, like, raccoon in Japanese, if you look this up.

Washbar is like little bear, I bet. Oh, okay. Interesting. Oh, it just says raccoon. But like, if you look up. Etymology. Yeah, put in the etymology of it. Come on, buddy.

Give him a break. He's doing pretty good with this. He's doing it really wrong too. It's a T. Who cares? Google will fix it. Don't let them get under your skin. Wash bear.

Wash bear. See, that's great because they do the little hand thing. Oh, yeah. I like that. Ticking around with their hands. I love those. I know the Japanese,

the etymology of the Japanese word for raccoon is like, it's like dumpster ferret or something like that. That makes sense. Trash panda. All right. All right. I know this one. So the score is one to one Peter, Patrick.

Wow. And Forrest. And forrest. I got two. I just went last. Oh, yeah. Got two jazz up too. All right. Number four. Nilpferd. Nilpferd. Nilpferd. You have to go last. Nilferd. I know it. If you actually know it, wait, let me go. I'm going to go with whale.

Oh, I like that. What language, Peter? Nopeford. Say it like that. Nopeford. It's a, I'll say, nopefurd. It's not German. I'm going to say it's a, One of the... The sail language. Nordic countries, like Sweden. I'm going to go Swedish.

I'm going to go Norwegian for Wolf. I will give you a hint. I'm going to tell you the Italian word for this animal. Okay. Interesting. Hipopatomo. Fuck off. I think we got it then.

It's hippopotamus? In German. Apparently. We got to have hippo on there twice. Wait, I thought hippo in German was like an insane word. It's this. There was a viral video that was very funny that was a guy learning. how to say hippopotamus in different languages.

Okay. And it's like hippopotamus, Spanish, hippopotamo, Italian, epipotomo. See if you can pull that up, Kyle. That sounds like that. I remember that. Pull that one up for later. I want to hear it at the end.

Here, let's do it. Let's do it real quick. He's got it. Nice. Can you audio? Hi. Dude, this is genius. I need to start TikTok like this.

Hypopatimis. Hippopatimus. Ipuputum. Ipubutum. Hippopotamos Hypopotamus Hypopotom Hypopotom

Lipetam Lipetam See, it's funny because intrinsically I was screaming Nilpferd I think I'd seen that But I didn't remember

I said it to you guys Like two years ago That's why I started screaming it I saw the word And just felt compelled to scream it But I didn't even remember it

I said it to our friend Justin Because his wife is German And he says She's always yelling at him Yeah And so I sent that to him He was like

this is, it's so true. She's yelling when she's not mad. It's just how it sounds. Real quick, before we move on, there's another crazy long German word. It's for like butterfly or something like that. See if you can find it, Kyle. It's like 45 syllables.

I'm not even joking. Yeah, what's that top there? I saw it. I saw it one second ago. What's that top word? Which one? Oh my God. You can't even say it.

Let's play a game where Kyle just tries to pronounce this. Doesn't matter. I saw this once though. And it was so. many syllables. Kyle, can you have Google pronounce it for us, please? 63 letters. That's unacceptable.

Why? What, how could that? Who approved that? Couldn't tell you. All right, here we go. It's going to play it. Rintfleash, etiquetteerings, Overwagings, Regressers. Sixty-three letters.

What does it mean? What does that mean? Go to English. What? Beef labeling, supervision, Task Transfer Act letters, 63. That's not right. Because that's the same amount of letters.

Listen, we can't be right all the time. It's not a journalistic podcast. All right. All right. Next step. I got to. I know this one, so I'll go last. Okay.

This was Ketzal. Ketzal? Kangaroo. I think it is a... Etymology, please. It is a... I think this is an ostrich. That's smart.

Good guess. Ketsal is one of the most beautiful birds in the world from Costa Rica. Dukin? No, it's a big... green, like, pull up a picture of a kettel. Oh, it's an actual kettel? It's a real animal. I don't know what the etymology. I mean, it's probably Mayan or something.

That's not, that's... Aztec. All right. I mean, this, I don't agree with that. No, I agree. That was a mistake. That's just the name of the animal. I don't think Forrest you get a point for that. I think he's a wildlife biologist. Of course, he knows animals. All right. It's going to be the tie break. Last one. Let's hear it, Kyle. Z-U. Good. How's it's it's how you pronounce it?

N-Z-O-U. That's how you pronounce it. That's good. And you know this? Yeah. It's another Shauna word. I don't know why he's using. He's using the only other language that I speak. Right. Dude, legit. Fucking.

Favoriteism. He loves me. He loves me. Peter? Shih Tzu. Jitsu. Njou. So it's a Shana word, a native language of Zimbabwe.

Something that they have there. It's a very beautiful creature. Very large. In Jue. Yeah, it's an elephant. Nah, you guys are cheated. We cheated. I said it was very large. He said very large. That was a cheat. That was a total cheat.

Yep. That's correct. Edwin, the game is good. Your structure to intentionally make me win was not good. It's true. It's actually much more entertaining when you do the opposite of that and make sure he does not win. Because I get so flustered. It's very angry. Good. All right. We got another game. Another one. What's doing? Two games in our. All right. So I'm going to tell you guys, uh, a, uh, fact, an animal fact. You guys are going to guess

what animal can do this insane. Like an ability. Can be trained. So these are 10 of the craziest trained animal feats and Kyle is going to go blank can do this. And we're going to guess. Are we three, two, oneing this or are we just guessing? Three to one. Because we'll not

know any of them. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to know. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know one because I read an article about it. But that's it. Okay. All right. Okay. Well, how do you know? Because I read an article about it. Oh, so you've already seen the list. No, I just saw the one, the article. I also saw the answer to number one.

So we all know number one. So we'll all just yell out. No, because it's interesting fact. And I have some info on number one, because we all saw it when he hovered over it. Okay. Okay. Yep.

I didn't see it. All right. So this is the first one everyone knows. Blank can be used to detect deep fake technology. Oh, nope. I saw a different one. I don't know what the hell is talking about. Can be used to detect deep fake technology.

Deep fake is the fake faces, right? Yeah. Enough to it that they may be able to detect differences between real speech and AI. Three, two, one. All right, let's go. Three, two, one. Chimms. Human chimps and chimps?

Yeah. No, it's none of those. What is it? Push the button. Can I get a second guess before you answer? Yeah. Is it a parrot of some kind? No.

Damn it. It's mice. It is mice. Mice. How did you know? That's the one I saw. Oh, that's not the one I saw. I saw a different one.

But when he read the question, I'm like, I must have seen a different one. By the way, I've never seen Kyle look so. happy before he pushed that button. He's like, smugness. No. How can a mouse detect deep fake technology? It's a good question. It's a good question. We don't need to go into how. I'm just going to believe that this is all

true. It would be good pod, but I sent the game, and I'm sure it's not been researched. It's just the game. I'm okay with that. It's fine. Hold on. No, it says it right here. Mice have a remarkable skill for distinguishing speech variations, enough that they may be able to detect the difference between real speech and AI-generated speech. And they probably train them to do some behavior where it's like, okay, if they detect real, whatever, they fucking push the bar or push the bar or something.

Because it's not like the mouse is like, oh yeah, that's, no, no, stop, that's AI. That's Eddie. Okay, that's not real. That's Eddie over there. Yeah. All right, next one. I did not see that one. I thought we're going to direct.

This is one that you guys might have seen. Blank can be trained to detect numerous illnesses. Oh, wow. Okay. Count it down. Three, two, one. Dogs. Yeah, we all got that one.

They can detect a double button press. They can smell it. They can smell a tumor. Yeah, smell cancer. I just, yeah, and the COVID, like, sniffers or whatever they had around? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like, we all got a point. That's nice.

That's good. All right. Never happened before. Blank can be trained to find invasive species such as muscles on boats, snakes, etc. Muscles on boats. to snakes. Dogs can definitely do that. I'm going to go dogs again. You have to. Okay, well, I'm not going to do that, but do that three, two, one.

Three, two, one. Drogs. It's dogs. How do you put two in there the same? All right, let's move on. We know how that works. Same is detecting. What if everyone is just dogs and that's the only part? We're going to stop after the next one.

All right, next one. Blank can be trained to find bombs. Oh, I know this one. Okay. Count it. Three, two, one. One. Rats.

Rats. Cangeros, pigs. Yeah. Well, I said kangaroo. Here we have elephants. Wow. I mean, dogs are soaking to it. So can rats.

So have kangaroos. Oh, well, that's interesting. I didn't know elephants could do it. So what I know about is that in Mozambique, it's a country neighboring where I grew up, there used to be, there were tons of leftover landmines from the Mozambique Revolutionary War. Yeah. And the villagers actually trained cane rats, which are one of the largest rat species in the world. they're like the size of a dog, that the cane rats, I forget how they did it, but they found

some old landmines, and they, like, smeared them with cheese or whatever, and they're like, this is now a good thing to find. And then they'd throw these cane rats out in the field, and these can rats would go sniffing for the landmines, and then pop on one. And because they were such big rats, the rat would go, and they'd be like, oh, no more landmine in my cornfield. Yeah. Which is pretty crazy, but pretty clever. Well, now that you reminded me, I remember just a recent article where they were talking about just regular rats being able to do this, and they were sending them out and they were, you know, they're, like, how do animals, they must be able to detect

the chemicals that, that create whatever the reaction is that's going to make the explosion. Yeah, it's a sense of smell. So there's, it's, because it's just chemicals, right? I think so. Yeah, it's just chemicals that create the reaction. All right, what do we got next, Cal? All right. Next we have, uh, let's see.

Blank can detect cancer, explosives and drugs. If it's dogs, I'm going to weed out any that are dogs. Okay. This is not dogs. It's not dogs. All right. it? 321.

Detect cancer, explosives and drugs. Okay. 3, 2, 1. Ducks. Rats. Brats. Brats.

Brat. Ducks. Here it says bees. Bees. How are bees. I believe it. These are so fascinating. This is a good podcast.

We just say something and then don't support it with any information whatsoever. Well, bees are super fascinating because, dude, they, they're so much more complex than we give them credit for. And by the way, if they went extinct, we're going to go extinct. too. We basically rely on them for fucking everything. But bees use their olfactory senses that aren't necessarily their noses. It's like what they use on their legs and things to detect honey to find these things. But listen to this. Research has suggested that a bee's ability to smell is as much as 50

times greater than a dog. That's pretty wild. Yeah. It's absolutely mental. No, dude, I learned something new about bees like every single month where I'm just like, my God, I love these things. They're the coolest animals. Yesterday, I was my kids. Listen to this. Yeah. Holy shit. So they trained bees to detect biomarkers for cancer or other diseases.

They have a human breathe into one end of a glass, one end of a glass tube. And then if the bee goes in the tube and if the marker is there, the bee goes towards the smell. Wow. That's incredible. That's crazy, man. That's really cool. I never would have guessed that. That's absolutely amazing.

Dude, I mean, it just goes to show you like how different types. of, I don't want to say like conscious, I will, conscious intelligence, even though like, we're the apex and we think, you know, we're at the top of everything and that our consciousness is the one that's the most important because we've built everything. Like, this is a tiny bee who has a tiny brain and it like can do these very incredible things that are almost like magic to us. Think about the amount of repetitions it takes to train a dog. Right. Right. And then to train a cat, it's many, many more repetitions. But bees, they learn so. quickly that the so these german researchers were training them you just reward them with sugar

water when they find a particular scent so they could differentiate between heroin and cocaine and then they come they go to the scent when they get it you give them some sugar water yeah you can train a bee to do it in 10 minutes 10 minutes that's so crazy that's mind blowing yeah like for real 10 minutes you can train them to do this yeah and and it's like an expendable thing i mean nobody should be out there killing bees, but it's not like a German shepherd that you have to foster, you know, for its entire life and train it and feed and feed it and like, you have to keep up that training with a drug dog. It's not saying you just do once and then it does it forever, right? Yeah. This is, bees are expendable. Train it for 10 minutes. Go go find the drugs. Go find the bombs. Go find the diseases. That's amazing. It is amazing. Dude, I was just like, and sometimes I look at honeybees and I'm like, well, then there's like just a big fucking nutritious honeybee hive. around here somewhere. Like I have no idea. Like there's just bees out in the wild and it always kind of blows my mind because honey is such like a, like I buy it at the store. But like these are just, these bees are coming to the flowers around my thing and then going back to their honey

beehive somewhere and making these big factories of honey. Did I, did I tell you guys my bee story when we went to Lake Nassiumeno last summer? No. I did. It's pretty funny. So, Kyle, I'm going to give you this footage. It's actually sitting in my Google Drive because I wanted to do something with it. I selfie filmed a bunch of stuff. We got to every summer for the like five years, not this summer, unfortunately because of my schedule, but every summer for the last five years, we've gone up to Lake Nassiomeno in Central California. We go wakeboarding and wake surfing and swim in the lake and fish and, you know, lake life it for a weekend. Last summer, we rented the same house every summer. Last summer we went up there and when we pulled in,

there was a thousand dead bees but the front door. And so my, my wife called the, whatever, the rental property manager. And she's like, hey, there's, there's, there's, obviously a beehive here, there's like a thousand dead bees by the front door. And they sent a guy out. And turns out right next to the front door was one of those, you know those big wooden drums, like old wine drums? Yeah. There was one of those cut in half and upside down with a little tiny hole in it. And the bees had been going in and out of it. When we got there, they weren't there. Like we didn't see them. They were all out like barging. But at the end of the day, as a sunset, right, when this guy came back, thousands of bees started swarming this barrel. Right? And so the

guy comes out and he's like, hey, you got this bee problem. There's a hive in this barrel. It was literally two feet from the front door. It's like, I'm going to kill the hive. And I was like, no, no, no, no, you're not going to kill the hive. He's like, yes, I am. I was like, no, you're not. Like, fuck off. Yeah. So I had like a fight with the guy. He left. He was like, fuck you. Like, I'm still getting paid. I came all the way out of here. I was like, fine. I'll pay you. I paid him as $60. That's how much his fee was. And he went away. Yeah. And so, but here's what I did, which was awesome. They were going to exterminate the bees. I called the property management, asked him if I could speak to the owner.

The owner said yes, or they said yes, spoke to the owner. I was like, hey, listen, you have a bee hive here. There's thousands of bees. Can I please take your wooden barrel? And they're like, sure, we don't care. We get them for free from the winery down the road. So I went to the hardware store and I got a big piece of press board like plywood, slipped it under there, did this all at night.

Decided to leave it the night before because the bees all go into sleep. Yeah. Taped up the hole, slipped a board under it, loaded the, whole thing into my truck and took the entire beehive from Lake Nassimeno back to my house in Santa Barbara during the night while the bees were sleeping, got there, put it out in the garden the next morning, opened it, and the bees have been living in my yard for a year. I love this story. I have a giant beehive in my yard, and I want to at some point figure out how to harvest the honey from it, but all my plants look incredible in my garden. The bees are all over.

Nobody's ever been stung at my house. Dude, I'll tell you right now, for once, I have a connection. There's people who are always posting in my local, like just HOA, like we have for the neighborhood or whatever. Yeah. They like, they will come out and say like, we'll save your beehive if you have a beehive that's a nuisance or whatever. I'll bet they would go and like do whatever you need to do to show you how to like do the honey and whatever. They don't like even make any money really, I don't think. They just like want to save the bees. And also like how crazy to be this bee who's in this barrel in front of this house like wakes up in this garden.

Like with all these. It's a whole new... There's a donkey. There's a whole new world here. All new flowers to pollinate. And everything's good and they're happy. They've been there over a year. That's incredible.

You see them in the morning. There's like a troop of a thousand bees flies out of this wine barrel in the bottom of my garden. And in the evening, they all go back in. That's fucking incredible. I just send it to you, Kyle. For when we edit this together, don't do it now because I don't know what's in there. But you can see me like loading it up, taping it closed. And I selfie filmed it because I was like, this is cool.

I'm saving this beehive. Nice. I love that. Let's do one more. This is worth 10 points. 10 points. Pick a good one. If it's dogs, I'm going to put my headphones down,

walk over to the green room and slap them. If dogs can even do whatever it is, you're also going to get. So this one, let's just, we'll go through it and then we'll talk about it. Okay. All right. Well, I just think it's amazing.

Blank can sniff out SD cards and hidden drives. Oh my God. So someone's smuggling a hard drive. It seems like a weird thing to do. He looks like he's. smuggling a hard drive. What could smell like metal technology? Like first of all, yeah, all right.

So we guys are going to do three to one. Three, two, one. A goose. I just said an animal. I couldn't think of anything. You guys said nothing. A pear. A coiac grizzly.

A pear. Is a pear an animal? Only a co-de-a-oh. One of the one said it, because it rhymed with a bear. So actually, it's dogs again. Oh, come on, Kyle, you son of a bitch. But I thought that was, I thought it was amazing.

They could sniff out hard drives and SD cards. Why would you need that? Yeah, I don't know. What's a scenario in which a dog needs to find a hard dress? Some of Keyster's a SD card? No, no, like if you guys are trying to smuggle out like footage from the Galapagos or something, you guys have done it on the reg. We did it in Myanmar.

Yeah, well, I mean, that's the perfect example. We thought we're going to have to. There's the example right there. Yeah, but instead you get the joy of keystering a hard drive. They're so small now. Yeah, well, there couldn't be a worst thing to keyster. Just a big square. Oh, God.

Oh, God. Oh, God. Okay, we're going to get on the play. It's the wrong shape. This is great. I'm excited. Thanks for getting me in vacation mode for us. Yeah, it's the shirt.

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